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

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:01:48PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I'm not sure anyone does that much in the way of time/date work that it'd 
> make a difference. Besides, we're talking internal here--time() may still 
> return Unix epoch seconds for compatibility reasons.

Blah!  I saw the prosal for an mjdate() routine and thought it was at
the language level for some reason.  This RFC should go to -internals
so that I don't get confused that way  :-)

> We may have ints of various sizes. (Or we may make it look that way but 
> really fake it... :) Hard to say yet.

As long as it Just Works from the language level, I don't care how
it's done  :-)

        my $i = 100_000_000_000_000_000;        # big number!
        $i += 100_000_000_000_000_000;          # even bigger!
        print "$i\n";                           # Oh my gosh, it worked!

-Scott
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