At 11:02 AM -0700 8/13/01, Erik Blake wrote:
>I'm curious as to the datum chosen - why not Jan 1, 1970 like C (at
>least the Borland implementation)? That will last until the 22nd
>century - I'll be dead
Leaving the other issues and answers aside, I'd like to point out
that C libraries typically implement time as a *signed* value from
1/1/70. This is very similar in range to Palm's (and Apple's) using
an *unsigned* value from 1/1/04. So I doesn't really get you to the
22nd century.
And if you think you'll be dead, I suggest reading "The First
Immortal" by James Halperin:
<http://www.randomhouse.com/features/firstimmortal/>
My girlfr...fian...wife(!) thinks the book isn't very realistic, but
I think it has a lot of fun ideas in it.
-- Keith
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-- Palm OS Emulator engineer
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