Subj : alternative DateTime (ref: fts-0001.016)
To : Rob Swindell
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Dec 20 2020 12:52 am
Hey Rob!
RS> Which is to say: it would not work at all, in a backwards
RS> compatible way.
It is EXACTLY as backwards compatible as it needs to be, both for now as well as back in 1995 and probably earlier. Unless you can point to a currently running system, or even one back in 1968, that required a two digit year to function in order to achieve proper FTN based digital communications, then I will still maintain that the current proposal stands and is indeed TRULY backwards compatible. By you limited definition nothing is backwards compatible including 8-bit systems that require a 2 digit year for their punch card IO database.
Please feel free to fold, spindle and mutilate THAT.
RS> Continuing what?
Living and learning.
Life is good,
Maurice
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