Quote from __Core Java, Volume II: Advanced Features, 13th Edition__
Now let us turn from absolute time to human time. There are two kinds of human time in the Java API, local date/time and zoned time. Local date/time has a date and/or time of day, but no associated time zone information. An example of a local date is June 14, 1903 (the day on which Alonzo Church, inventor of the lambda calculus, was born). Since that date has neither a time of day nor time zone information, it does not correspond to a precise instant of time. In contrast, July 16, 1969, 09:32:00 EDT (the launch of Apollo 11) is a zoned date/time, representing a precise instant on the time line.
I thought that was interesting. So, the Epoch perhaps ought to be June 14, 1903?
Brian