[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to James Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 5 Jul, 02:53, greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James Harris wrote: > > > With that the time would range to +/- 9000 > > > quintillion years (18 digits) > > > > Use the Big Bang as the epoch, and you won't have > > to worry about negative timestamps.
In pedantic mode: negative timestamps make sense with Big Bang as the epoch as well. (AFAIU, the current way of thinking is that it was "just too hot" before the big bang, it is not that "there was nothing".) Hope this helps, Ilya -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
