The first two bytes represent the century and year respectively. Each of these bytes have an offset of 100 to allow for the negative centuries and years required for BC dates. For example, the byte pair 96,8 would represent the year 492 BC (the year of the battle of Marathon). The 3rd and 4th bytes represent the month and the day of that month respectively. The last three bytes represent the hour, minute, and second. Each of these time bytes have an offset of 1 to ensure that dates can never contain null bytes. So the contents of the seven bytes are as follows.