Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Modified Julian (not epoch)

[Jeremy Howard]

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:25:34AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > : Yep.  Or more generally "Standardize Perl on all platforms to one
> > : common time epoch" and reccommend the Unix epoch since it's so
> > : widespread.  :-)
> >
> > Oh, gee, where's your sense of history?  (As in creating our own. :-)
> > Maybe we should invent our own epoch, like the year 2000.  Or use a
> > really standard one, like the year 0 AD (aka 1 BC).
> >
> > I have this horror that people will still be using 1970 as the epoch in
> > the year 31,536.
>
Actually, Damian Conway came up with a good one last night. His suggestion
was that the time at which we decide what to use as the start of our epoch,
should be the time that we use as the start of our epoch. Now that's
creating our own history!