Re: Time in DOM 2 Events

David Brownell wrote:
 
> However, if there's an issue with that "start of epoch" date, it
> may be OK to have it be unspecified ... since the motivation is
> to detect relative times.  Individual hosting environments would
> specify their start-of-epoch date.
> 
> A 64-bit millisecond timestamp seems the right model to me.  Apps
> won't have to worry about it rolling over, yet the events (UI only!)
> will be easily distinguished.

Okay provided the start-of-epoch *is* put into the Java binding section.
It would be senseless to have some Java DOMs do the obvious
Right Thing, but nobody be able to rely on it across DOMs.

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Received on Monday, 31 January 2000 12:32:09 UTC