🆕 blog! “A little oddity in the way curl deals with old dates”

For boring technical reasons, computers think the world began on 1st of January 1970. To keep track of the future, they count the number of seconds since that momentous date. So zero seconds represents midnight on that day.

So how do computers deal with dates before The Beatles' Abbey Road was …

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