Re date year error

[Fairlight]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:16:38PM -0500, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Kenneth Brody cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> 
> Well, 1-Jan-1983 is filePro's "epoch".  Dates are manipulated internally
> as the number of days from the epoch[1].  Perhaps you have run into some

Erm...why?

fP predates 1983, and there was already a solidly defined epoch in place
for timestamps well before '78, just begging to be used.

Why did fP go non-standard on this?  (Dare I ask?)

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