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My earliest file suffix is .5AM, so 22 Oct 1985. The motivation was to encode a date stamp in the three character suffix which DOS was limited to at the time. It's a nice coincidence that 1980 mod 36 is 0, but I admittedly didn't come up with the '1J' leading digits, like Rick did. so I put it here. Karl 10:24, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Karl. No, my edit wasn't encyclopaedic, but if you look at the content, then you'll see that I believably refute the assertion that RickDate was first invented in December 85, a 'fact' which has been left in the article. If you want a copy of the file in question, I'll send it to you. I also indicated the real reason for RickDate's existence, the DOS 3-char suffix limitation, but that didn't make it into the article either. By the way, Rick knows I beat him to the punch by about two months on this invention -- we exchanged e-mails in 2001 -- but seeing as how we came up with it independently of each other, it's ok if he calls himself the inventor; I don't need to blow my horn about it. And that's why I'm remaining anonymous, too. 82.135.84.154 19:11, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I would like to propose an extension to RickDate into "RickTime" by adding a colon, a digit for an hour, and another digit for double minutes ("0" for 0/1 through "s" for 58/59), in UTC. Since RickDate is structurally case-insensitive, uppercase and lowercase shall be equivalent. According to this, the timestamp 2007-11-21 14:35 UTC would convert to "1jrbl:eh" (which is now, as I am writing this).
For automatically generated timestamps, this precision may be increased by adding a decimal point and more base36 digits to further subdivide the double minutes. I.e., the next digit would stand for a 36th fraction of two minutes (3 1/3 seconds) and so on. With this scheme, "1jrbl:eh.mu3" (think of it as 1jrbl:eh + 0.MU3(base36) * 120 seconds) would convert into 2007-11-21 14:34 UTC + 76.118827 seconds, which is 2007-11-21 14:35:16.118827 UTC. Three post-decimal digits would give a precision of .00257 seconds. Felix (mailto rickdate-hql at edcx dot net)
