> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Michiel Meeuwissen
> Verzonden: woensdag 28 augustus 2002 18:56
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: Re: Nice way to represent dates before 1970?
>
>
> Henk Hangyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to represent dates before January 1-st, 1970 in MMBase?
>
> I thought negative numbers were allowed as well? That stretches up
> from 1901 until 2038 or something like that. Better, but still not
> perfect :-)
>
> What excactly is going wrong?
>
> Michiel
>
>
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> Michiel Meeuwissen
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>
>
Would it not be possible to make the timetag autodetect size ? so that if we
defined a integer (as is done now) it
will parse as it does now but if we define a long it will autoswitch to a
new (still to be implemented) decoder that
has a much wider range ?
Daniel.
