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From: jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.003846.3070@brainiac.mn.org>
Date: 13 Apr 91 00:38:46 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.044234.23491@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>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.
>
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

How about forget about seconds and use days.  Then start the epoch at
1 A.D.  Its good for 11767033 years.  By that time we won't care about 
news anymore :-).