Subj : message-id
To : andrew clarke
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Oct 31 2002 11:13 pm
>> As a general rule, implementations for specific languages shouldn't be
>> mentioned in documents. I'd avoid this particular comment especially,
>> since it makes no sense. (time(NULL) must, by definition, be the same
>> in any implementation.)
ac> From the C standard:
ac> "The time function determines the current calendar time. The
ac> encoding of the value is unspecified."
ac> Programmers tend to just convert the value returned to an
ac> unsigned long and be done with it, unfortunately.
i believe that charles brought that up because not everyone uses C... i (still)
program in turbo pascal 6 and am just now starting to "play" with delphi 6...
other languages include java, php, perl, etc...
one thing that i found exceedingly funny was that the original creator of
FTS-0009 was thinking of a simple incrementing counter... that is really all
that is necessary... even sendmail uses one... check the code! <<GG>>
