Re date year error

[Bob Stockler]

Mark Luljak wrote (on Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:27:43PM -0500):

| 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?)

Perhaps the old NIH syndrome?

Bob

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