/* Since there was no gmtime_r() to do this stuff for us,
we have to do it the hard way. */
{
- /* The VMS epoch is the astronomical Smithsonian date,
+ /*-
+ * The VMS epoch is the astronomical Smithsonian date,
if I remember correctly, which is November 17, 1858.
Furthermore, time is measure in thenths of microseconds
and stored in quadwords (64 bit integers). unix_epoch