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

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