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From: Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP status files and wierd dates - revisted.
Message-ID: <847@Snoopy.Logicon.COM>
Date: 28 Nov 90 20:22:14 GMT
References: <756@dynasys.UUCP> <1990Nov27.151512.24352@decuac.dec.com> <37@bootsie.UUCP>
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In article <37@bootsie.UUCP> olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson) writes:
>The _real_ problem with storing dates as "number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970"
>is that sometime in the year 2106, all the dates are gonna wrap around to
>1970 again!

One of the few things that VAX/VMS does better than any other
operating system I am aware of is its range of dates.  Zero is
17 November 1858, it won't overflow for more than 10,000 years, and
the precision is 100 nanoseconds (better than current hardware can
provide).  Unfortunately, DEC more than compensated for this by
omitting any concept of time zones or daylight savings time.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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