From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-23T22:40:58+09:00
Subject: Re: 64bit timestamp library

Do me a favor and build you own 128bit timestamp and lets be done with these 
restraints.  I'm getting shades of Y2K mainia all over again. ;)

On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:29 pm, David Garamond wrote:
> I'm looking for a 64bit timestamp definition/standard with suitable
> range (at least from year 1900 to 2100) and precision (at least
> milliseconds). So far .NET's System.DateTime is the best candidate
> (range is year 1 AD to 9999 AD, precision is 0.1 microsecond). However,
> conversion to/from UNIX timestamp looks to be non-straightforward. Is
> there a Ruby library to do this (or to/from other suitable timestamp)?
>
> I could always invent my own timestamp, but...