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> how does that relate to Apollo and negative timestamps?

I'm not certain, but perhaps the parent commenter wasn't being literal. Maybe just a way of saying that the Apollo engineers did their amazing work before what the rest of us consider to be the "beginning of time"?




Yes, GP here, it was a joke, Unix is so young that the moon landing is pre-historic to it, it already belonged to another epoch literally.

I took the joke from this comic: https://www.commitstrip.com/2015/10/06/before-timestamp-0/




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