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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:36 PM 8/14/00 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:13:13PM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > =head1 TITLE
> >
> > Maintain internal time in Modified Julian (not epoch)
>
>How would this be stored?  As a floating point number?  What about
>sub-second accuracy?  To get seconds you'd need about 5.15 decimal
>places (let's just call that 6) I think it should be stored as 2 numbers,
>the julian day and the seconds into that day.

How 'bout 100ns ticks from base date, stored in a 64-bit number? That 
should see us into Y30K, assuming the integer is signed...

                                        Dan

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