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RE: Merry Christmas & Happy new year

Posted in 2005

Topics: General Discussion

malcolm weallans — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

And there are many of us who just wish we could re-invent dates and times to fit the computer industry - aren't there? Just imagine how much code we could save with decimalised dates and times. But now I am dreaming! Bless you all Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler Sent: 24 December 2005 05:28 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Merry Christmas & Happy new year scottishpoet wrote: > how about > > "best wishes for 2006 everyone" > > hopefully that meets with everyones approval Nah - there are plenty who count their years from different dates, so their next calendar year is not 2006. Not necessarily so many reading c.d.i, 'tis true. But some. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list sending to informix-list

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John Carlson — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:28:22 -0000, "malcolm weallans" <malcolm.iiug@btopenworld.com> wrote: > >And there are many of us who just wish we could re-invent dates and times to >fit the computer industry - aren't there? Just imagine how much code we >could save with decimalised dates and times. > 'stardates' perhaps? JWC

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david@smooth1.co.uk — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not an Informix marketing agent"...

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