>>>>> "AD" == Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AD> In my humble opinion, I think perl's time() ought to just call the C
AD> library's time() function and not waste time mucking with the return
AD> value. Instead, if the time is to be stored externally for later use by
AD> another program, the programmer should be responsible for converting the
AD> time into a suitably useful and portable format. Any unilateral choice
AD> made by Perl6 in that regard isn't going to be of any help unless everyone
AD> else (Java, Python, C, etc.) follows along.
Possibly a few functions to make it easy.
$Perl::EpochOffset
0 on a unix box
966770660 on a Mac (Lifted from pudge's previous email)
etc.
Then on output. print time()-$Perl::EpochOffset;
One other that might be useful is have strftime() (or something
similar) built-in without having to use POSIX; and the default should
be YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.fffffff, (the ISO format)
I personally prefer to pass around the string representation, more
that perl and unix systems need to handle datetime. (And I find it
easier to read the ISO version than a time in seconds)
<chaim>
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