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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 04:42:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.044234.23491@looking.on.ca>
References: <3313@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <5077@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Apr09.160444.25262@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr9.185748.11721@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Apr9.221012.19572@visix.com>

This has little to do with unix.  Pick any epoch you like, as long as everybody
agrees with it.   The Unix epoch is a convenient one because you don't have
to make any changes on Unix software, as if adding a constant is a big change.

I must admit I do like the choice of Jan 1, 2001 and negative numbers.  I
might also suggest a minute count instead of a second count, since there is
no great need for the seconds on this one.    Avoids the problem of the
date wrap in 2^31 seconds.

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Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473