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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.185748.11721@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 18:57:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr09.160444.25262@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>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.

 Which epoch?  The unix epoch, the MSDOS epoch, or Jan 1st 1900 which is used
as an epoch in a number of systems?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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