On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:58:41 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: > >I also wonder what dataset names have to do with dates and calendars and why >the epoch origin should be 1 and not 0. > Day Serial Number. Kinda like USS.
>Why would astronomical or geological efforts require doublewords? Has anyone >ever seen any time value larger than 5 million years which requires >granularity down to the day? month? single year? > Would you, then, propose a floating point representation that allows a tradeoff between range and precision? What would you propose as the epoch at which it has greatest precision? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
