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Re: A few questions about dates
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Re: A few questions about dates


  • Subject: Re: A few questions about dates
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:44:02 -0400

On 8/28/06, has <email@hidden> wrote:
The Apple Event Manager represents dates as typeLongDateTime, which
is a signed 64-bit integer representing the number of seconds since
the classic Mac epoch (1 Jan 1904).

Is that UTC or unspecified-time-zone?  That is, at noon Eastern tomorrow, will AEMs across the world have a time of
 212,023,627,200, or will it be 212,023,612,800 here on the east coast, 212,023,602,000 in California, etc?

At least with a 64-bit second count you don't have to worry about rolling over - you can store dates for almost 300 billion years on either side of the epoch.

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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