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Re: re. date format



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At 01:18 PM 11/25/97 -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
>I'm not worried about cpu power as much as programmer time fiddling
>with time/date converstion routines... 

Amen.  That's why I wanted these strings to be compared as ASCII...no 
conversion.

>presumably you at least need to verify that all certs along the chain
>haven't expired.. and if you're caching that verification, compute the
>intersection of the validity ranges so you know how long the
>authorization lasts..

The intersection computation is one of < or > comparison followed by 
selection of one string or another -- not of arithmetic.

 - Carl

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