[JDEV] Encoding and dating thoughts

[Patrick McCuller]

>
> I would also like to make a suggestion on the date format. In the next
> couple of years all UNIX systems will be forced to move to 64 bit
> (or above)
> integers. Why? 2038 == $maxint. The simple solution would be to just blit
> the int and RFC ???? timezone. ex. "12341234 PST"

	Don't count on it happening soon. By this logic, we would have been
worrying about the Y2K problem in 1962. We only really started worrying
about it, arguably, less than two years ago. That's a generalization, of
course, but closer to the truth than 1962.


Patrick