DBI Interface 0.1.5

[Jason King]

> How about representing time as the number of seconds (0.1 
> seconds?  0.01 seconds?) since midnite 12/31/1999?  Use a 
> signed 64 bit int, and depend on a time library to convert it 
> into the desired format?  This allows times to be stored in a 
> compact form, and YOU don't need to worry about leap seconds, 
> etc. You're just dealing with int's.)  Also figure out the 
> desired time range to cover, and use that to figue out the 
> precision in pieces of a second you are interested in.  (I got 
> into this discussion with someone before, and they convinced me 
> that 2^63 hundreths of a second is a LOONNNGGGGGG time.)

Either Unix epoch (1/1/1970) or 1/1/1900 would be dates that have 
a lot of existing software support.  1/1/1999 is a problem if 
we're storing birthdates for anything besides summer-camp.