On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> There are two threads running on the p6i list right now dealing with
> date and time handling. The threads are "Dates and Times" and
> "Epoch...". Larry Wall has stated that by default Perl 6 will return
> time as a floating point number of seconds since 2000. Regardless of
> what Perl 6 does, I'm advocating that Parrot returns TAI. If anyone has
> something constructive to say please hop in.
TAI seems reasonable, since it should be easy to convert to whatever else
is needed.
Presumably, sub-second precision will vary across platforms, so I'm not
worried about that.
The idea of Perl 6 returning floating point numbers isn't all that
thrilling, though, since then to convert to some arbitrary sub-second
precision you may have to round off the number, meaning that conversion to
and from this Perl 6 native type won't necessarily be a round trip thing.
-dave
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