Re: A few questions about dates

I've poured over Matt Neuburg's book and Googled, but can't find an answer
to any of these questions; any answers (or pointers to where I can find
out more) would be appreciated:

1) AS stores dates as seconds, but what's the reference that Applescript
measures those seconds against ( i.e. does AS use Unix-style "epoch"
seconds, or something else)?

2) Is there any way to return a date as its value in seconds, rather
than as a date string?  Trying to coerce the value using "as integer"
returns a "Can't make date ... into type integer" error, and "as number"
behaves analogously.

3) What's the deal with "today"?  It seems to be a synonym for "current
date" when used in comparisons, but doesn't seem to be valid anywhere
else.

TIA,

Sweth.

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