From: Richard Heathfield    
   Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year   
       
   On 31/12/16 23:34, Ken Blake wrote:   
   > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:45:39 -0500, Wally W.  wrote:   
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   >> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:34:05 -0600, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> knew it was around that time, from having to deal with that when my   
   >>> website was on a 32-bit server. IIRC the negative limit is in December 1901   
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   >> One of the problems when designing websites in 1901: there were no   
   >> browsers that supported UTF-8 encoding.   
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   >   
   > Actually, in 1901, there were no browsers at all.   
       
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