Dates
Dates
- Subject: Dates
- From: Angela Brett <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:17:58 +1200
Hello,
I was looking through the NSDate docs trying to figure out how to get
the NSString representations of a date (which I eventually found in
NSCalendarDate) but I saw something which I'm a little curious about:
Principal Attributes
Seconds since absolute reference date (1 January, 2001, GMT)
I thought most UNIX systems used 1970 for that... is Mac OS X ticking
different because it's nice and modern, or is it just the NSDate
class which stores the date differently? I notice there is a method
which returns the time interval since 1 January 1970, GMT, but that
is just called a reference date and not the absolute reference date.
Incidentally, a friend of mine has alerted me to the fact that that
we're approaching 'S1B' - a billion seconds since the latter epoch
(he's made a countdown cgi at
http://www.co.nz/clock in case anyone
wants to see when it happens.) Am I allowed to join in the
celebrations or will I have to wait until a billion seconds from 1
January, 2001? :)
--
Angela Brett email@hidden
http://acronyms.co.nz/
"Great minds think different."