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From: jbrown@locus.com (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
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Date: 11 Apr 91 22:46:29 GMT
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How about using as the epoch for this new date-representation standard
the moment the standard is agreed on?  Right now is some negative number,
next year is some positive number; the only question is where 0 is.
How about midnight on the date of the RFC announcing it?

98% :-) ... but it's as good a time as any.