-=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Leonard Erickson <=-

 JB> another way is to factor the date info the timer value used so that it
 JB> never goes backwards... then you can have any size of timeout you
 JB> want. 

If I'm going to do *that*, I'll either use a unix timestamp (seconds
since the start of 1 Jan 1970 GMT) or a JD# (number of days since noon
UTC Jan 1, 4713 BC, including fractions)

There are lots of functions for converting to/from either.

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