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Last Day to Register for TechDays Vancouver at the Early Bird Price!

Today, Tuesday August 3rd, is your last chance to register for TechDays Vancouver at the early bird price of CAD$349.99 (plus taxes). The deadline is tonight at 12:00 midnight Eastern (that’s 9:00 p.m. Pacific); once this passes, the registration fee for
 
Joey deVilla
Aug 04 2010 06:00 AM
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Why does the OLE variant date format use 30 December 1899 as its zero point?

In 2006, via the suggestion box, Chris J asks why the OLE variant date format has such a strange zero point. Its zero point is 30 December 1899, as opposed to 1 January 1900 (SQL Server's zero point) or 1 January 1970 (the unix zero point). It turns
 
oldnewthing
Mar 12 2010 07:30 PM
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What is the format for FirstInstallDateTime on Windows 95?

Public Service Announcement: Daylight Saving Time ends in most parts of the United States this weekend. Windows 98/98/Me recorded the date and time at which Setup was run in the registry
 
oldnewthing
Oct 30 2009 07:30 PM
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Avoiding ambiguous time lines

Time always goes from left to right. Time flows from left to right, at least in the Western world. It progresses in graphs from the axis on the left to the empty space on the right. You click on the right facing button to go to the next month in a
 
Philip Morton
Jun 11 2009 03:30 PM
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Linux: Looking at files changed recently

This is really handy (on Linux and Cygwin) when you're working on a project that may not be in source control and you want to see what you changed recently. I made this blog post, when it seems a trivial use of find, because I don't think the man page
May 27 2009 11:05 PM