BJ>> I believe there was something else at the time that also
 BJ>> drove the 2 second decision -- that was out of other fido
 BJ>> based sosftware implementations.

 WM> Two seconds is the limit of resolution in the FAT filesystem.
 WM> That's ultimately where it comes from.

 ml> and that only because the date/time stamp was taken 
 ml> from the original, one message per file, format (ie: 
 ml> *.msg)... the stamp in the message header can/could be 
 ml> different than the one on the disk but that the same 
 ml> structures were (apparently?) used, lead us down this 
 ml> road...

Ah.... Yes....  This is jogging some old bits out of my memory.....

We will need to address this long term.....  Using the Unix time standard
would allow finear granularity, but will break when the 32 bit clock rolls
over -- depending on how the rolling over of the epoch is handled in
various flavors of Unix, Linux, etc.  And, who is going to have 60+ year
old messages to show the error?  

Any way....  Time to move on to another subject.....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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