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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <3327@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 91 13:16:45 GMT
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> <1991Apr11.044234.23491@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991Apr11.044234.23491@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

| 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.

  Sure nice to have seconds, though, when you're trying to figure out
the order of messages.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"