Re: Time/date problem

[friedman@splode.com (Noah Friedman)]

>Unix time is only meant to represent times after 1/1/70. 

On my system, time_t is a signed long, so what do negative (or very large)
values represent?  Other than -1, that is, which has an overloaded meaning
because of system call conventions.  If you say "garbage", I'm perfectly
willing to believe you since that's usually what unix creates anyway...