<div dir="ltr">On 20 November 2013 11:29, Alex Vandiver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexmv@bestpractical.com" target="_blank">alexmv@bestpractical.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 11:13 -0800, Landon Stewart wrote:<br>
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> Is using > "1970-01-01 00:00:00” the only way?<br>
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</div>Currently, yes.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok thank you.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> Seems like that definite value might be begging for bugs or something<br>
> if somehow the unset date equals "1970-01-01 05:00:00” for some reason<br>
> down the road. I just want to make sure I’m not setting myself up for<br>
> buggy behaviour in the future.<br>
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</div>That magic date is the "UNIX epoch," and will not change.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> - Alex<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh I knew it was the Unix epoch date/time but I was concerned that maybe if the server’s timezone changed it could somehow offset the epoch. I guess since that’s simply the ‘display’ version of null then it’s safe to use it as a constant.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway thanks again.</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Landon Stewart :: </span><a href="mailto:lstewart@iweb.com" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" target="_blank">lstewart@iweb.com</a><br>
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