On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Daniel A. Koepke wrote: >On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Zeavon Calatin wrote: > >> long beginning_of_time = 650336715; > >Blargh. > >Part of the point of the change for bpl19 was to get rid of this constant. >It translates to, BTW, August 10, 1990, which is around the time DikuMUD >was being developed. First time up, write out time(0) as the beginning of >time. This lets you maintain a starting Mud year/month/day/time in a much >simpler fashion (rather than tweaking the weird constant) until something >good comes out of it. We don't want starting values of Year 0. Well, I suppose someone might but I don't think it's all that interesting for most people. I keep lib/etc/time mode 444 when testing so it doesn't update and make CVS patch it. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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