Re date year error

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:27:43 -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].
[...]
> Erm...why?
>
> fP predates 1983,

The 8-bit version, yes.  But "Profile 16" was 1983.

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

This is a 16-bit date, not a 32-bit time.

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

Because there was no standard for what we're storing.  The standard
was for something else.

Yes, we could have used the date of the Unix time epoch, but we
didn't, as there was no reason to.

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