January 1 is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 364 days remaining (365 in leap years).
What happened on this day[]
- 1900 - The clock (or epoch) begins in the Network Time Protocol.
- 1904 - The clock (or epoch) begins in HFS and classic Mac OS.
- 1925 - The start of the day (zeroth hour) for Greenwich Mean Time is changed from noon to midnight.
- 1939 - The Hewlett-Packard company is founded in Palo Alto, California.
- 1948 - Al Alcorn, a future Apple Fellow, is born.
- 1963 - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is formed.
- 1970 - The clock (or epoch) begins in Unix-based systems, as well as the Apple File System.
- 1985 - The Macintosh XL, based on Apple Computer's remaining inventory of the Lisa 2, is released.
- 1994 - The Macintosh Performa 560 is released.
- 1999 - The Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One is discontinued.
- 2001 - Support for the Macintosh Classic II is discontinued.
- 2020 - The 2020 date limit bug is triggered in classic Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9.0.3 or earlier.
External links[]
- January 1 at Wikipedia