s/ DateTime - Instant / TAI /

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Carl Mäsak wrote: Darren (), commit-bot (): +Returns a TAI epoch value for the current time. Shouldn't the result type of time() be an Instant object (Instant and Duration are defined in S02) rather than a Rat? I fear that the Instant from S02 is a fossil. Instant was renamed

Re: s/ DateTime - Instant / TAI /

2009-09-09 Thread Matthew Wilson
Dare I suggest TAIME? I do. On 9/9/09, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote: Carl Mäsak wrote: Darren (), commit-bot (): +Returns a TAI epoch value for the current time. Shouldn't the result type of time() be an Instant object (Instant and Duration are defined in S02) rather than

Re: s/ DateTime - Instant / TAI /

2009-09-09 Thread Darren Duncan
Carl Mäsak wrote: Darren (), commit-bot (): -=head2 Time +=head1 Current Time +The epoch used in Perl 6 to represent time instants is the +International Atomic Time - TAI - which is independent of calendars, +timezones as well as leap seconds. Of course Perl can't go beyond the +machine