odd date/time stamps

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>]

[Sorry, I don't know if offtopic@ is just for humorous things, or
if this question is sufficiently offtopic from kernelnewbies to justify
it here. :]

I let my laptop run out of battery while on sleep. It turns out it
doesn't do any nice suspend-to-disk things, it just dies.. Anyway, I
found some files like this:
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           24 Jan  1  1904 modules.pnpbiosmap
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           29 Jan  1  1904 modules.parportmap

How on earth did the time get set to jan 1 1904?? 1970 I could
understand.. but 1904 just baffles me. (I think I've heard excel
stores dates as offsets since jan 1 1904, but unix never seemed
to like 1904. :)

Is this an odd ppcism?

Thanks :)

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