James wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 08:55:50 -0400 > Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:07 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> >>>This morning while I was looking around the filesystem for something >>>I happened to notice something strange. >>> >>>drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 dev/ >>> >>>notice the size and datestamp on /dev. Any thoughts? >>> >>>Mark >> >> >>It's an artifact of devfs. IIRC, that particulat date is known as the >>"epoch", or the beginning of Unix time. Apparently nothing important >>happened before that. 8) > > > Dang... so that's when the big bang was.... Oh and some, important > things happened before that date ..... I was born. May not be important > to you but it had a tremendous affect on my life. > > James >
I know what you mean James, but doesn't that have an great ring to it? "The beginning of Unix time." Mark
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