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representing the number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 (UTC)"

I wonder why they chose 1601?

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Re^2: Win32 SystemTimeToFileTime
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 20, 2005 at 12:37 UTC

    Perhaps because it's the first new century after the adoption of the Gregorian calender.

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by ZlR (Chaplain) on Jan 20, 2005 at 12:45 UTC

    err, my words when i saw it !
    Maybe it's an hidden tribute to Robert Devereux and the essex rebellion ?

    Here is also a discussion on time formats.
    They call it the "win32 epoch".

    This thread here offers another (somehow more magical) solution, but i don't think it would work with perl 5.6 .

    zlr,

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