On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Jared Rhine wrote: > It'd be great, if possible, to get a statement here from the DateTime > group sanctioning one or another particular Parrot clock interfaces as > "efficient, complete, and preferred". I haven't poked over to see > if they are chatting about this Parrot issue.
A few of us have already offered opinions... What we would like for DateTime.pm is an epoch that is _absolutely_ fixed across all platforms. perl does not provide this so we are dependent on the behavior of time(), gmtime(), and Time::Local to make up for this. I have already suggested that Parrot include an op that returns TAI but I would happily settle for gettimeofday(2). What ever is decided upon Parrot should commit to making it consistent across _all_ platforms. -J --
