Re: MySQL base time?

by "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>

Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:47:47 +0100
To:	"Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>, "Keith D Sellars" <Keith(at)webgraffix.com>
Cc:	hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	S0026260871
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Hi Keith,

> Note: The valid range of a timestamp is typically from Fri, 13 Dec
> 1901 20:45:54 GMT to Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07 GMT. (These are the
> dates that correspond to the minimum and maximum values for a 32-bit
> signed integer). On windows this range is limited from 01-01-1970 to
> 19-01-2038.

Hmm, I didn't see that (but then, I wasn't looking too closely :o)  
).  Thinking about it, it's very possible (and probably, actually) 
that the epoch value is still 1/1/1970 on Unix, but you get the 
earlier dates by having negative numbers.

Raj.

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