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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
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Date: 11 Apr 91 05:26:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr09.160444.25262@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr9.185748.11721@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Apr9.221012.19572@visix.com>
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In article <1991Apr9.221012.19572@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>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?
>Indeed.  Remeber, Brad, the world doesn't always revolve around UNIX :)...

How about this idea?

The year followed by seconds since 12am Jan 1 of that year.

as in:

1991 8633384

It's still very easy to parse and leaves no questions about epochs
(well, other than that of our calendar ;-).

--Bill Davidson
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