[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Tony Finch]

Tom Van Baak <tvb at LeapSecond.com> wrote:

>

> When I developed email in 1976 I encoded the BCD date (mmddyy) and BCD

> time (hhmmss) into two 18-bit binary fields. This worked because the

> maximum possible date was 123199, the maximum time was 235959, which

> just fit in the maximum half-word (2^18 = 262144).


That is quite horrible :-)

Tony.
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