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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.160444.25262@looking.on.ca>
Date: 9 Apr 91 16:04:44 GMT
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To be honest, I think the most efficient thing to do would be to add
"an integer specifying the number of seconds since the epoch" as a valid date,
and the preferred date.

It's easy to parse :-) and very difficult to interpret incorrectly, and it
takes no extra CPU.   Newsreaders would interpret it and display it as
desired locally.

Of course, this suggestion should have been done at the start, since you
now have to support the old multi-format date and this requires the use of
complex libraries.   An optional comment could go after this figure with
the date in human form.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473