27 Feb
2002
27 Feb
'02
11:33 p.m.
Guido> Proposal for internal representation (also the basis for an
Guido> efficient pickle format):
Guido> year 2 bytes, big-endian, unsigned (0 .. 65535)
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Guido> - Why is the year unsigned? So memcmp() will do the right thing
Guido> for comparing dates (in the same timezone).
So the earliest year it can represent is 1BC (or does year == 0 represent some other base year)?
One of MAL's desires were that he could use the abstract interface /F defined and remain binary compatible with the current mxDateTime layout. Will your layout work for him?
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