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In <shores.677707660@fergvax> shores@fergvax.unl.edu (Shores) writes:

>I have a better idea.  Instead of storing a date STRING, why not just
>store a number?  The Macintosh stores dates as a 4 byte number,
>representing the seconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1904.  Unix has a similar
>convention, only from 1972 (better, IMHO).  Then it should be up to the
>user program to represent the date.   The Mac has IUDateString, unix and
>others have ctime(), etc.

That is totally non-human-readable, however.  That may not matter for
the application that started this thread, whatever that was, but it
can be useful.  Further, everyone will probably use a different
scheme, and one 32 bit number looks the same as the next.  Also, if
you decide that you need tenth-second accuracy, the string can be
extended without breaking the logic of the scheme, even if it does
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