Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "NT" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

NT> Chaim Frenkel writes:
>> Why? What is the gain? Perl only runs on the local machine.

NT> Epoch seconds are a convenient representation for dates and times.
NT> Varying epochs make it an unreliable representation when data are
NT> shared.  A consistent epoch would fix this.

Sorry, I don't buy that. Not every program will be perl. Plus you are
assuming that epoch seconds are good everywhere. And even if it were
why should any other program use the same epoch.

The only valid interchange would be to specify the date unambiguously,
for example the ISO <mumble, help me Jarkko>    YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.fff

<chaim>
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