[SLUG] Misc Links..

[Jamie]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 22:28, Ian Eade @ IGM Web Design wrote:
> What a crazy way of calculating a date format, how the hell is anyone
> supposed to know what the number of seconds in between 2 given time periods?
> Unless of course you use the strtotime function, I bet ASP or Coldfusion
> doesn't have one of these?
> 
> $start_date = strtotime("1 august 2002");
> $end_date = strtotime("31 august 2002");
> 
> Furthermore it is reckoned that the fact that because the time value is only
> a 32-bit number it will prevent really long distance space travel. Maybe on
> the next shuttle they should scrap Linux and use NT, it does not give a toss
> about accurate dates.
> 

Its completely beyond me, only a programmer could see the sense in it.
lol

> Ian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scarborough-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:scarborough-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Adams, Jamie
> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 02:55
> To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [SLUG] Misc Links..
> 
> 
> Some good news for 2003...
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2680955.stm
> ($2 billion worth of sales.. wow!)
> 
> Some more on that Unix date format Ian mentioned at the last meeting..
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1300744.stm
> 
> Jamie
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