Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Russ Allbery]

Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> And if we're going to standardize on something, let's squeeze as much
> out of this as possible.  signed 64 bit integer and microseconds.  (I
> think that's another RFC)

I think it should be specified that the return value is seconds since Unix
epoch and the storage size be left unspecified, from the language
perspective.  On those platforms that support it, using 64 bits is
obviously a good idea.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>