Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote at 00:10 this Tuesday (GMT):

[ Just noticed this post while catching up in my backlog, so I'm not
  sure my questions/comments have already been addressed elsewhere. ]
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On 16.04.2025 22:04, Scott Lurndal wrote:

[...]

 
Back in the mainframe days, it was common to use julian dates
as they were both concise (5 BCD digits/20 bits) and sortable.
 
  YYDDD
 
If time was neeeded, it was seconds since midnight in a reference
timezone.

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I don't quite understand the rationale behind all that said above.
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"YYDDD" was used without century information? How is that useful?
(I assume it's just the popular laziness that later lead to all the
Y2k chaos activities.)

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I believe the current rule for software is to consider "39" the cutoff,
ie 39 is considered 2039, and 40 is considered 1940. I agree though,
removing the century is a bad idea for anything that is supposed to be
kept for a length of time.
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