Date/Time library functions

[Mark Lawrence]

I *know* this probably been visited umpteen times before, but in the last
copy of c.u.q:FAQ I've got, it isn't addressed.

I need to pick an internal format for representing date and time.  The
format has to accomodate dates and times back to 1900 or so and through
the turn of the century and beyond).  I've been finessing the issue for
the last couple of years by using UNIX internal time format, but now
we're getting serious and have to handle a broader range of values.

Anybody have any pointers to existing software that handles such a range
that can do timezone conversion and so forth?  Thanks in advance.
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