Re: timestamps and timezones (was: time-sync)

[Simon Richter]

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Robert Webber wrote:

 > I'd be inclined to go with two Ms and use a numeric month.  Not sure what
 > we're going to do about the Y10K issue, though.

Easy, just parse the datestamp from the end to the beginning. This allows
for an infinite number of years. Additionally, it might be a good idea to
add a tag describing the calendar system used for encoding the date
(1=Julian, 2=Gregorian, ...). But this is optional, since we have
a (for now) reasonable default here, so we need the tag only during the
transition to another system.

    Simon

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