On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 01:10:23PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > GMT is not UTC (although it is equal for most practical purposes).
>
> Ok, I'll have to research this a little. I've heard both ways (it is, it
> isn't, it's supposed to be...)
For me, GMT has no leap-seconds, UTC does.
> > since you can do
> >
> > date(undef,"%d/%m/%Y")
Just thought of this ... why not make date() smart enough to recognize
if its first argument is a format or not so that we can say
date("%d/%m/%Y"); # instead of date(undef,"%d/%m/%y")
> This is why I think 0-padding is invaluable. Granted, the same thing
> could be done with a format, but the above would probably be quicker.
> Plus, I don't see the 0-padding as having any negative side-effects
> (remember, localtime() will still be in Time::Local).
Funny, I'd say the same thing to argue the other way. This whole format
part of the proposal bothers me. If we're writing a localtime()
replacement, I'd like it to be comparable in execution speed to
localtime(). All of these nifty features intuitively feel like they'd
slow it down.
> And since we already have one for $isdst, I figured it was useful.
> However, if there's a lot of counter-opinion, it can be removed.
The existence of $isdst doesn't make me want an $isutc; I'd prefer it
not be there.
-Scott
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