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BruceMcF wrote:
> Year: +n5|0 ~ There is no 0AD, so a year of 0 implies no RTC, the
> months are months since system start-up.

Oh no, that's a fairly outdated way of counting years, the year 0 exists 
for quite some time (and negative years for the years before).  That's 
why people were actually sort-of-right who claimed that the third 
millennium started in the year 2000: the transition to a year 0 and a 
millennium therefore ending at x999/12/31 was before 2000, and the 20th 
century was the shortest century ever (only 99 years long from start to 
finish ;-), but it might have a second chance (when this century is 
renamed to "20th century", since all Fortran programmers died before it 
ends ;-).

We also had to move our monthly Forth meeting (meet on the fourth day of 
the fourth week) to Thursday due to all these date counting shifts, and 
it took quite a while until we realized that this had happened.  These 
silent calendar reforms usually have no practical impacts.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-18 00:43 -0800
  Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-18 02:33 -0800
    Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-18 05:26 -0800
      Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-18 09:14 -0800
        Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-18 20:10 +0100
          Re: most portable way to compare file times Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-18 15:10 -0600
            Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-18 13:32 -0800
              Re: most portable way to compare file times anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-21 10:22 +0000
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-21 08:51 -0800
            Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-19 00:57 +0100
        Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-18 14:45 -0800
  Re: most portable way to compare file times "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2011-11-18 05:44 -0500
    Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-18 05:31 -0800
      Re: most portable way to compare file times anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-18 16:22 +0000
        Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-19 13:59 -0800
          Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-20 02:06 -0800
            Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-20 02:44 -0800
              Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-20 14:58 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-20 06:48 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-20 08:05 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2011-11-20 20:53 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-20 12:21 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-21 21:03 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-21 17:32 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-21 17:45 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-24 15:48 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-24 09:34 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-24 11:58 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-24 17:25 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2011-11-24 20:56 -1000
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2011-11-25 04:15 -0600
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-25 04:17 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-25 05:47 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-25 08:58 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-25 11:43 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-25 11:12 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-25 05:39 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-11-27 14:34 +0000
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-27 08:46 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-25 04:32 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2011-11-25 04:51 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-25 16:46 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-25 08:33 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-26 01:11 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-26 12:18 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-11-26 21:44 +0100
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-26 13:18 -0800
                Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-20 12:45 -0800
            Re: most portable way to compare file times Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2011-11-20 07:49 -0800
        Re: most portable way to compare file times mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2011-11-20 09:45 +0200
      Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-18 10:42 -0800
  Re: most portable way to compare file times BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2011-11-20 13:05 -0800

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