John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter J. Acklam wrote: > > > I don't see what the epoch has got to do with it. The TAI > > time system is exactly like UTC except for the leap seconds, > > and that, to me, seems very similar to what Perl is using. > > The epoch has everything to do with it. TAI is not defined to > start with 0 at Jan 1, 1970 (Unix epoch), but with the hex value > 4000000000000000 for that instant in time. Perl5 uses the Unix > epoch as the basis for it's time (for historical reasons). > Perl6 may use TAI.
I think we're talking about different things. I am talking about TAI, you about TAI64. Peter -- #!/local/bin/perl5 -wp -*- mode: cperl; coding: iso-8859-1; -*- # matlab comment stripper (strips comments from Matlab m-files) s/^((?:(?:[])}\w.]'+|[^'%])+|'[^'\n]*(?:''[^'\n]*)*')*).*/$1/x;
