REBOL *must* be basing dates on a stored Julian day number. They should
give us a word 'julian that returns the julian day no for a given date, and
some other word to convert it to a date. The Julian day number accounts for
leapyears, number of days in each month, etc. There are a number of "ep
Ah... now we're making progress.
now - 31-12-1969 * 86400
works, except that gives the right day but not the current time. All I gotta
do now is figure how how to do the correct time. (using the above, we get
941241600 which translates, using from the Unix command date -r 941241600)
to Fri Oct
Well, getting seconds is possible, but is there a portable
way to get a micro-seconds timer?
With the new console commands, you could finally make a
game of tetris this way ;)
...Michael...
(alas, no colours...)