[JDEV] Encoding and dating thoughts

[Scott Robinson]

Ok, I'll give you that point. However, it does handily solve the problem of
time representation, ne?

Scott.

* Patrick McCuller translated into ASCII [Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 02:30:14AM -0400][<000901beda54$fbc74080$0a7bc897 at scylla>]
> 
> >
> > 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
> 
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