Episode 21: Dating

  • sweemeng’s first REXX script - This is basically a Julian to Gregorian date converter.
  • Unix Time - a system for describing a point in time. It is the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Thursday, 1 January 1970,[2] Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), minus leap seconds.
  • Year 2038 problem - Some UNIX implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. Just like the Y2K problem, the Year 2038 problem is caused by insufficient capacity of the chosen storage unit. [Read More]