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echo: ftsc_public
to: ROB SWINDELL
from: NICK ANDRE
date: 2020-12-20 04:53:00
subject: Re: alternative DateTime

On 19 Dec 20  18:39:28, Rob Swindell said the following to Maurice Kinal:

RS> I haven't really proposed anything, but if I were, it would be a new contro
RS> paragraph (kludge line) in the variable length portion of the packed-messag
RS> This would have no impact on older/existing systems and yet would allow new
RS> systems to utilize the more precise date/time information if they wished.

I'm not a fan of kludging things to death, but this sounds more logical than 
outright changing something in packets, thus in my case changing tosser code
that has been mostly unchanged since '89.

Nick

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