[JDEV] date format

Jerrad Pierce belg4mit at MIT.EDU
Thu Jul 29 10:51:26 CDT 1999


I would suggest going with the following, the logical ordering of increasing
granularity. And to prevent a year 10K problem, the date field should be
parsed by taking the right 2 bytes for day, next 2 for month, rest as year :-P

date (@ UTC)
yyyymmdd

time (in UTC of course)
hhmmss

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