• Jonathan (unregistered)

    That 54 years seems to correlate with a Unix timestamp value of 0 which is the epoch of January 1, 1970.

  • Hasseman (unregistered) in reply to Jonathan

    See that 'almost' daily where I work now. Many places we have to explicit make empty strings of them.

  • dusoft (unregistered)

    54 years is clearly the Epoch start.

  • derek (unregistered)

    GOG has an easter egg with "Cyberpunk 2077". 54 years back from that is 2023.

  • (nodebb)

    Mountain Time Zone is 1 hour later than Pacific, not earlier.

  • Wayne (unregistered)

    You beat me to it, Barry. I live in New Mexico, former resident of Arizona, formerly frequent visitor to California. Yeah, someone doesn't understand how time zones work.

  • Argle (unregistered) in reply to Wayne

    I consider notalwaysright.com to be the low-tech sister site to this one. There you can find dozens of stories of people don't know how time-zones work... because they are unaware that time zones even exist.

  • matt (unregistered) in reply to Barry Margolin

    Depends on whether you mean the numbers on the clocks or the arrival of the time zone to world events like sunrise. Mountain is definitely an hour AHEAD of Pacific in both senses, and early in the latter sense. I usually say ahead of/behind when referring to time zones for this reason, though.

  • Bill T (unregistered)

    Ah, I just love epoch dates! Usually when you see something with negative times, or with too many years ago, it's straight-forward to figure out which one is being used. And so many different ones to choose from:

    • 1970-01-01 for Unix
    • 1900-01-00 (!) for Excel
    • 0001-01-01 for .NET

    And so many more! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(computing)

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