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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:56 PM 8/14/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Is Perl currently using different epochs on different platforms?  If so, I
>
>Yes.  MacOS and VMS.  (Though VMS' localtime() uses the UNIX definition,
>just to be portable.)  MacOS' epoch zero is 1900 (or was it 1901?),
>VMS' epoch zero is 17-NOV-1858 00:00:00.00, for some astronomical
>reason IIRC.

It's the Smithsonian Base Date, FWIW. On VMS, though, perl presents all 
time in Unix epoch seconds.

                                        Dan

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