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To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jun 1997 12:42:39 +1000."
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From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
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> but some consistency in hackery would be nice.  Maybe we should just tell 
> the world to use hexadecimal years.  Then we would now be in the year
> 0x7CD, and we would have another 50 years to get organised before we hit 
> 0x800 :-)

:-)

This could get awkward, especially for each ending in "AD" and "BC".


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