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

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 06:13:13PM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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>> Maintain internal time in Modified Julian (not epoch)

There has to be _an_ epoch - even Caesar started somewhere...

>
>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) 

IEEE 'float' (the short one) has about 6 places (24 bit mantissa).
double has many more. But even I don't think using years as the 
"unit" is right thing to do.

Seconds is my favourite...

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Nick Ing-Simmons