Theory Behind Older Apple Software Support — #13

Post #13 by porter

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Software
Post Date	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 - 23:29
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/theory-behind-older-apple-software-support.14619/

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No, I think the multi-byte clock was implemented right at the start.

A multi-byte clock, eh?

Quote from Inside Macintosh Volume II.

The date and time setting is stored as an unsigned number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1904

Which is worse than the UNIX time datum of 1970.

Similarly the date in the Macintosh file system was still 32 bits.