Changing the date so IE caches the page

It turns out that IE8 on Windows XP (a 32-bit operating system) internally must store dates in the same way that MS-DOS file timestamps are stored.  It uses 16 bits for a date and 16 bits for a time, and it starts the clock at 1980-01-01 00:00:00 (no time zone information) and ends at 2107-12-31 23:59:58.  The seconds may seem odd, but MS-DOS drops the resolution of the seconds down to just even numbers in order to squeeze it into 16 bits.

Here's a bitwise breakdown for more information:

    FEDC BA98 7654 3210   FEDC BA98 7654 3210
    YYYY YYYM MMMD DDDD   HHHH Hmmm mmmS SSSS

You will get the possible maximums as:
    Y (year): 127
	M (month): 16
	D (day): 31
	H (hour): 31
	m (minute): 63
	S (seconds / 2): 31

So, because S can only go up to 31, only even numbers of seconds are stored, giving you a granularity down to a 2 second margin.