Tom Van Baak <[email protected]> wrote: > > When I developed email in 1976 I encoded the BCD date (mmddyy) and BCD > time (hhmmss) into two 18-bit binary fields. This worked because the > maximum possible date was 123199, the maximum time was 235959, which > just fit in the maximum half-word (2^18 = 262144).
That is quite horrible :-) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
