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I received a message that my iCloud storage is almost full. I decided
to transfer some of my photos elsewhere. I see the first photo was
added on 1 January 1601. Does this make mine the world's oldest
iPhone?
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Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> Wrote in message:

I received a message that my iCloud storage is almost full. I decided
to transfer some of my photos elsewhere. I see the first photo was
added on 1 January 1601. Does this make mine the world's oldest
iPhone?

According to Wikipedia:
"January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) is used as the base of file
dates and of Active Directory Logon dates by Microsoft Windows.
It is also the date from which ANSI dates are counted and were
adopted by the American National Standards Institute for use with
COBOL and other computer languages. All versions of the Microsoft
Windows operating system from Windows 95 onward count units of
one hundred nanoseconds from this epoch as a counter having 63
bits until 30828/9/14 02:48:05.4775807.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:55:34 +0000 (GMT), Dave Royal
<dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:

Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> Wrote in message:

I received a message that my iCloud storage is almost full. I decided
to transfer some of my photos elsewhere. I see the first photo was
added on 1 January 1601. Does this make mine the world's oldest
iPhone?

According to Wikipedia:
"January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) is used as the base of file
dates and of Active Directory Logon dates by Microsoft Windows.
It is also the date from which ANSI dates are counted and were
adopted by the American National Standards Institute for use with
COBOL and other computer languages. All versions of the Microsoft
Windows operating system from Windows 95 onward count units of
one hundred nanoseconds from this epoch as a counter having 63
bits until 30828/9/14 02:48:05.4775807.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601>

Thanks - I thought there might be a more technical explanation but I
did not think of this.
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On 24/01/2026 20:55, Dave Royal wrote:

January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) is used as the base of file
dates and of Active Directory Logon dates by Microsoft Windows.

Seems an odd choice, since is precedes the following anomaly in the
British and American calendars, but follows the equivalent one in the
Catholic country ones:

cal sep 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

As the Gregorian calendar is used, in this context, it actually means
the epoch was in December 1601 (have I got the sign right?), at the
actual time of the epoch, in what became the country that defined the standard.

Supposedly it is because of the 400 year leap year rule.
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Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> Wrote in message:

On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:55:34 +0000 (GMT), Dave Royal
<dave@dave123royal.com> wrote:

Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> Wrote in message:

I received a message that my iCloud storage is almost full. I decided
to transfer some of my photos elsewhere. I see the first photo was
added on 1 January 1601. Does this make mine the world's oldest
iPhone?

According to Wikipedia:
"January 1 of this year (1601-01-01) is used as the base of file
dates and of Active Directory Logon dates by Microsoft Windows.
It is also the date from which ANSI dates are counted and were
adopted by the American National Standards Institute for use with
COBOL and other computer languages. All versions of the Microsoft
Windows operating system from Windows 95 onward count units of
one hundred nanoseconds from this epoch as a counter having 63
bits until 30828/9/14 02:48:05.4775807.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1601>

Thanks - I thought there might be a more technical explanation but I
did not think of this.

Neither did I. I looked up wiki to see what was happening then. I
thought I might be able to make a joke!
Odd, isn't it. Why start at 1600?
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