Date Math

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:12:12PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> And would people on something other than "Unix" complain about
> such a function name?  :-)

Wouldn't do them any good: what he was suggesting is very specifically
Unixian: the number of seconds a datestamp postdates 19700101T000000.

Only useful for dates in the UNix epoch, of course, but...

Cheers,
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