Umm...1969?

[Guest]

I just saw that the forum rules are a bit messed up:

[Bill Phil]

I think that was the first year that anything related to the internet was experimented with.

[Yukon0009]

And now it says 1970. Did Kasper accidentally make a time machine as well?

[Red Iron Crown]

Sounds like the timestamp got lost somehow, so it defaulted to the start of Unix time, 0:00:00UTC on January 1, 1970. Your timezone settings may affect how it is displayed.

[billkerbinsky]

10 hours ago, Bill Phil said:

I think that was the first year that anything related to the internet was experimented with.

Nope.  Research into what became the Internet started in the 1960's.  

The UNIX operating system and the C programming language (which began life in the early 70's) use a format for timestamps that is a count of seconds since 1 January 1970 00:00 UTC.  

Which year a zero timestamp shows up as depends on your time zone.

If you're in a timezone west of the prime meridian (in other words, North & South America, more or less) a zero timestamp shows as some time during 31 December 1969; timezones to the east (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia) show it on 1 January 1970.

 

 

 

[Bill Phil]

I mean that a computer tried to send data to another, but it pretty much failed.