[TUHS] Happy birthday, Unix timestamp!

[Andrew Hume]

if i recall correctly, V1 of Unix had time measured in milliseconds.
were folks that sure that this would change before wrap-around?

> On Sep 9, 2022, at 5:06 AM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Well, you can imagine what happened when the leading digit changed
>> from an ASCII "9" to an ASCII "1". Oops.
> 
> I first saw a time-overflow bug more than 60 years ago. Accounting
> went haywire in the Bell Labs' comp center on day 256 of the year,
> when the encoded output of a new time clock reached the sign bit.
> 
> Doug