Re: [LEAPSECS] EBML: yet another date format?

2015-06-28 Thread Rob Seaman
PHK and others make good points, but I’m still trying to get past the binary-file equivalent of XML”. I doubt this is worth much more investigation from this group, but in addition to git: https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification there are a few links from the wikipedia

Re: [LEAPSECS] EBML: yet another date format?

2015-06-28 Thread Brooks Harris
On 2015-06-28 07:31 AM, Hal Murray wrote: Can somebody do the math to figure out what range of dates would be supported by a signed 8-octet integer in nanoseconds centered on 2001-01-01? 64 bits of nanoseconds covers 584 years divide by 2 if you want signed (63 bits) Looks to me they mean 128