Re: Sniping on the List
| From: | Stuart Dallas | Date: | Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:07:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Sniping on the List | ||
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On 17 Nov 2011, at 16:01, Tedd Sperling wrote:
> To all:
>
> Okay, so now that we have had people reply, here's my take.
>
> The Unix timestamp started on 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 -- and that was a Thursday.
>
> The second before (i.e., 31 December, 1969 23:59:59:59 + 0000) was null, which was Wednesday.
I take issue with this. The second before was -1 seconds from the epoch. Null is the absence of a
value, so you can't get to null by simple arithmetic. I learnt about negative numbers from the
Greeks. And no, I'm not going to comment on their current mathematical difficulties.
Hmm.
D'oh!
But the point still stands: -1 !== null.
-Stuart
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