[LEAPSECS] Pre-1972 UTC

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <499714E5.12929.10147B2C at dan.tobias.name>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes

:

>Is this stuff all just academic, or does anybody actually have any 

>pre-1972 timestamps (in documents, databases, etc.) for which precise 

>sub-second interpretation is necessary?


I guess only Dennis, Ken or Brian could be affected, and I doubt they
bothered to set their clocks even to second precision.

Relevant links:

	http://www.tuhs.org/

	http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html

And in particular:

	http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html

Poul-Henning

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