Re: RFC 48 (v2) Replace localtime() and gmtime() with da

[Philip Newton]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> To me, the real question is which date() should we use:
> 
>    $date = date $seconds_since_epoch;   # uses time()
>    $date = date $modified_julian_date;  # non-Unix
> 
> If we can make it work, the second one seems a lot more
> platform-independent. After all, the epoch has no meaning to those on
> Macs, PCs, or BeOS machines (except maybe historical trivia).

(Careful; architecture ne OS -- there are PCs running Unix, for example,
and their epoch would be 1 January 1970.)

Well, they have their own epoch; for example, MS-DOS's epoch is 1 January
1980 AFAIK.

Cheers,
Philip
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