byte compression

[SteveB]

Maybe something like the julian calender, but extended down to date/time offset from a certain start date/time, but then you'd get less than one day's worth of seconds in a word...

Yea, like a julian calander, except instead of restarting the count of days every year, you can restart the count of seconds every 18.2 hours (if you use a word). But, once an event occurs, you can restart the counter, and the new offset begins from that last offset. Sort of like restarting the Julian Calandar every time it rains in Del Rio! Or better yet, SNOWS!!