Re: timeStamp and DOMTimeStamp from Jim Ley on 2006-03-28 (public-webapi@w3.org from March 2006)

From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:30:56 +0100
To: <public-webapi@w3.org>
Message-ID: <077701c65263$7a792f00$817ba8c0@Snufkin>

"Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
> Don't change things unless you have to. There's nothing wrong with
> 1970-01-01T00:00:00.0Z. In 50 years it won't make the slightest difference
> whether we started in 1970-01-01T00:00:00.0Z or in 2000-01-01T00:00:00.0Z,
> and in the meantime it will make it slightly easier to implement.

I agree, unix epoch is the correct date to start from, introducing new 0 
dates is entirely pointless

Jim.

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