On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Benjamin Coates wrote:

> 
> You can also replace the date of the update with "updates since epoch" = 
> floor((now - (epoch + offset)) / increment) so that the number increases by 1 
> for each update, which is a little more intuitive than increasing by 
> increment 
> and no harder to code.

I like that.

> 
> Anyway, what does everybody else think?  seconds in hex, or calendar dates in 
> decimal, or what?
> 

I kinda like the current system.  I do on occasion type a backdated URI
into my browser, especially around the witching hour of midnight GMT.  I
wouldn't mind symbolic names either, like "monday" or "yesterday".  CVS
has fancy date handling like that, should steal it's code.


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