What happened in 1970?

[spartak]

Chris. You spammer you. I already said that

[Buck Birdseed]

Originally posted by Gasmaske
I think 1970 is a "universal" default representing a time before PCs. I'm nopt sure if its a M$ ir an IBM idea but old versions of DOS start from 1970 if no date is set on startup.

Actually it's a UNIX idea originally. PHP (The programming language used on these forums) represents time as a number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 (Though it contains processes that turns it back into a "normal" date), because this is the value it gets from the server. When no date is supplied it reverts to 0, which in this case represents Midnight, January 1st, 1970.

I feel like a fool for knowing this.

[Thue]

*Points finger at snapcase*

Geek! Nerd alert!

[Dauphin]

He would be a nerd if he knew his login date as stated on his user info (i.e How many seconds it was from Midnight, January 1st, 1970 to November 2000)