Re: Very strange dates - BUG
Re: Very strange dates - BUG
- Subject: Re: Very strange dates - BUG
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:31:10 -0700
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but not exactly half way between between
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the "dawn of time" - Jan 1, 1904 - and the "end of time" - Feb 5(?) 2040. I
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wonder what accounts for the discrepancy.
AppleScript switches from integer to floating point well before 2^31-1 and I have often wondered why. Is it possible that some upper bits are being used for flags the way the Dec10 used the high order bit to indicate a float?
If so, an unsigned long - max 2^32-1 - might be problematical when used as an integer in a calculation rather than a date.
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