As the unix-savvy among you probably know, there is One True Way to tell the time: the number of seconds elapsed since midnight on January 1, 1970 +0000. It’s an extremely convenient way for computers to represent the time, since it’s just an integer that goes up. There’s no parsing to be done, and arithmetic [...]
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*nix Tip of the Day: VMS
Okay, so this is maybe a little unusual, but today’s “*nix Tip of the Day” isn’t about Unix/Linux/etc. at all. Instead, it is about their antiquated archenemy: VMS. First, a little bit of history: <History> Way back in 1970, the PDP-11 was hot stuff. Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, Brian Kernighan, and others at Bell Labs [...]
