weird Q I was wondering about in regards to the epoch. (perhaps a stupid Q)
what would be the problems with choosing a new epoch (i.e. one where jan 1 is the same day of week as jan 1, 1970 and is 2 years before a leap year. (perhaps doesn't exist).
The worse case I see is that apps that calculate years internally (instead of via a shared library or like) would calculate them incorrectly. I'm wondering if this wouldn't be something that could be massaged around. Of course, it just pushes the problem down the road.
it also makes timestamps like this incompatible between systems that have different epochs, which could be an issue.
as I said, naive (possibly stupid) Q, just wondering if people have actually talked about it?
what would be the problems with choosing a new epoch (i.e. one where jan 1 is the same day of week as jan 1, 1970 and is 2 years before a leap year. (perhaps doesn't exist).
The worse case I see is that apps that calculate years internally (instead of via a shared library or like) would calculate them incorrectly. I'm wondering if this wouldn't be something that could be massaged around. Of course, it just pushes the problem down the road.
it also makes timestamps like this incompatible between systems that have different epochs, which could be an issue.
as I said, naive (possibly stupid) Q, just wondering if people have actually talked about it?