Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Peter Scott]

At 11:17 PM 8/15/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "NT" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>NT> Chaim Frenkel writes:
> >> Why? What is the gain? Perl only runs on the local machine.
>
>NT> Epoch seconds are a convenient representation for dates and times.
>NT> Varying epochs make it an unreliable representation when data are
>NT> shared.  A consistent epoch would fix this.
>
>Sorry, I don't buy that. Not every program will be perl. Plus you are
>assuming that epoch seconds are good everywhere. And even if it were
>why should any other program use the same epoch.
>
>The only valid interchange would be to specify the date unambiguously,
>for example the ISO <mumble, help me Jarkko>    YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.fff

ISO 8601.  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies