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From: jrc@brainiac.mn.org (Jeffrey Comstock)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.003126.2977@brainiac.mn.org>
Date: 13 Apr 91 00:31:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: brainiac.1991Apr13.003126.2977
References: <5077@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Apr09.160444.25262@looking.on.ca> <1991Apr9.185748.11721@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1991Apr9.185748.11721@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <1991Apr09.160444.25262@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>To be honest, I think the most efficient thing to do would be to add
>>"an integer specifying the number of seconds since the epoch" as a valid date,
>>and the preferred date.
>
> Which epoch?  The unix epoch, the MSDOS epoch, or Jan 1st 1900 which is used
>as an epoch in a number of systems?

VMS has a really strange one.  I think it starts on Feb 14, 1758.