Subj : Dates and Times
To   : All
From : Ed Vance
Date : Wed Sep 26 2001 03:04 pm

I often wondered what the string of numbers mean that I see in my Bookmark file 
when viewing it with LIST.COM (DOS).

I am preparing to Install NS Communicator 4.75 Complete on Drive D: and then 
Remove NS Navigator 4.08 Base from Drive C:.

I wanted to keep my History (NETSCAPE.HST) and Bookmarks (BOOKMARK.HTM) and put 
them in 4.75 later on.

After saving NETSCAPE.HST and also doing a SaveAs from the History window, 
ditto for the Bookmark stuff, I just had to look at the 4 files that were 
saved.

Historys' SaveAs file was much smaller than the Copy I made of NETSCAPE.HST.
It's easier to see the Dates and Times of what I had done though.

While looking at something I did today 26 September 2001 I noticed that the 
Date/Time Code had increased a digit from its' usual "9xxxxxxxx" format to a 
larger "1xxxxxxxxx" size.

Being as nosey as I am about this here computer stuff I had to try to calculate 
on my own what the figures meant but no luck.

By looking at it, it seems that it "might" be a Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) 
format 5 bytes long.  I'm not sure.

Here are some example of Dates and Times and what appears in either the History 
window or in Bookmark Properties.

History window or
Bookmark Properties     The Coded Numbers
--------------------------------------------
8/7/2000  10:11PM       "965700680"
7/20/2001 12:31PM       "995603472"
9/6/2001  11:55PM       "999834912"
9/6/2001  11:58PM       "999835112"
9/26/2001 ???????       "1001526873"
9/26/2001 ???????       "1001527364"

The reason for the "Question Marks" for the last two entries is because History 
only tells me "Less than 6 Hours old" instead of giving me the Date and Time 
for the entries.

I could have waited until tomorrow to check it again and get the correct Time 
for the entries but I want to ask my Question NOW!

;-D

TIA   Ed

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