January 4, 2004
MarkBernstein.org
 

Timestamps

Most operating systems represent dates, internally, as a length of time since a fairly recent date. For example, the Macintosh counts the number of seconds that have passed since midnight, January 1, 1904.

What is the best, most convenient representation for old dates -- say, January 1, 1660/1?

Aaron Swartz suggests TAI64.