On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:40:32PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> No, but currently Perl IS forcing Windows, Mac, and BeOS users to
> understand what the UNIX epoch is.
So you're proposing that rather than give one platform (unix) an
advantage, we force all platforms to use some other completely
arbitrary date/time format?
> There's some other advantages to MJD beyond system-independence. Namely,
> it allows easy date arithmetic, meaning complex objects are not required
> to modify dates even down to the nanosecond level.
Sorry, but date arithmetic is easy now:
$then = time();
# time passes
$now = time();
$difference = $now - $then; # How long was that?
And as to modifying dates "down to the nanosecond", you're proposing
that these MJD dates be floating point numbers. Why not ust make
time() return a float and *bam* you've got <1 second precision as far
as your floats or doubles can carry you.
> But make the core language easily accessible to everyone.
Funny, that's the exact argument I would use *against* mjdate().
-Scott
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