[Info-vax] Why is starting epoch 17 Nov 1858?

[John Dallman]

In article <bea6103e-99a8-465f-9a55-b60aa241138dn at googlegroups.com>,
james.c.decamp at gmail.com (Jim DeCamp) wrote:

> Digital, based in Maynard, Massachusetts recruited heavily from 
> Cambridge, so somehow, they adopted the same epoch, but not the 
> same representation.

It's not a terrible epoch. It's before the date of birth of anyone who
was alive when VMS was released: one should not use OS time for that kind
of thing, but that doesn't stop some people from doing it. 

John