On 2009 Feb 20, at 14:36, Chris Dolan wrote:
UTC: TAI with an offset, as corrected for the actual revolution of
the
Earth: usually 60 seconds in a minute, but occasionally 59 or 61. 60
minutes in every hour (so 3599, 3600, or 3601 seconds), 24 hours in
every day (86399, 86400, or 86401 seconds
On 2009 Feb 20, at 12:21, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
Em Sex, 2009-02-20 às 10:40 -0600, Dave Rolsky escreveu:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
If we're going to use an epoch, it should be the Operating System's
epoch. Anything else will lead to confusion and disorder ;P
And which OS epoch wou
On 2009-Feb-20, at 11:17 am, Larry Wall wrote:
Certainly, we'll be depending on the type system to keep these things
straight. I'm not suggesting the user use bare Nums as anything other
than naive durations for APIs such as sleep().
If we have some units to make suitable objects, we can say
