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

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:25:34AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> : Yep.  Or more generally "Standardize Perl on all platforms to one
> : common time epoch" and reccommend the Unix epoch since it's so
> : widespread.  :-)
> 
> Oh, gee, where's your sense of history?  (As in creating our own. :-)
> Maybe we should invent our own epoch, like the year 2000.  Or use a
> really standard one, like the year 0 AD (aka 1 BC).

Well, if I had my history sense, I'd've recommended that we start our
epoch at about 4.5 billion years ago to keep the geologists happy and
if those cosmologists had their act together maybe I'd've recommended
we start our epoch at about 15 billion years ago.  ;-)

> I have this horror that people will still be using 1970 as the epoch in
> the year 31,536.

You can almost count on it.  But that won't be our fault as much as
Unix's :-)

-Scott
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