On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:43:46 -0400, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Reef Fish wrote:
>
>> Here's a dead giveaway:
>>
>> *>  Predicts tides from 1970 through 2037.
>>
>> Why would anyone want to "predict" tides in the past?  :-)
>
>It has nothing to do with that, it's a much geekier answer.
>
>Those are the 32-bit unix epoch boundaries.  Unix time is kept as the
number of seconds since Jan 1 1970.  It will overflow a 32-bit counter on
Jan 19, 2038, at 3:14:08 [GMT] in the morning.  Since they couldn't cover
all of 2038, they only claim to go to 2037.

Thanks for that decipher.  And I thought there were some people
with brains working for Unix.

Even if that's the reason for the RANGE for which that geek's
program works, it's pretty dumb for anyone to say what he said
about "prediction", of the past, don't you think?

Well, the rat-ware rats still has my other laptop hijacked and spooked.
I turned up the network security dials much higher and that seemed to
have slowed down the pop ups and other nuisances.

If it gets any worse, I may have to call on the Geek Exorcist who
caused all those rats in my system in the first place.  :-)

Da inscrutible, but screwable-by-internet-geek, Feeesh.