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Re:On the use of a life (2020) by andyjohnson0 on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:19AM (#31986075)
> 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"?

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Re:On the use of a life (2020) by eastbound on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:45AM (#31986605)
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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