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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: All numeric representation of dates
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Date: 30 Aug 88 01:43:04 GMT
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In article <107@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>For scientific  purposes, time is  already presented in the  Julian date
>system (e.g., the  time now is 2447402.78570 days). It  would be nice if
>everybody used this system. Coming to  think of it, everybody should use
>the binary system - it would be so much easier to program! :-)

Continuing in the same spirit of humour:  the Imperial system of liquid
measures *was* binary!