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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
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Date: 10 Apr 91 21:17:34 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:


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

Let's get ahead of the ball this time...

1 Jan 2001 0000:0000

and just use negative numbers until then....

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