[Full-Disclosure] And how long have buffer overflows been around?

[Nexus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls at utdallas.edu>
To: <Vincent.Maes at aps.com>; <full-disclosure at lists.netsys.com>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:05 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] And how long have buffer overflows been
around?

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> > Does anyone know if the concept of "Windows time" exist?  I'd
> > really like to know the beginning of it's epoch.
> >
> The MS DOS epoch is 01-01-1980.

And the epoch for FILETIME is from January 1st 1601 UTC.
Evenin' guv'nor, *riffles cards* pick an epoch, any epoch...

Obscurely enough, "windows time" does actually exist ;-)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/windows_time.asp

Cheers.