> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:25:34AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > : Yep. Or more generally "Standardize Perl on all platforms to one > > : common time epoch" and reccommend the Unix epoch since it's so > > : widespread. :-) > > > > Oh, gee, where's your sense of history? (As in creating our own. :-) > > Maybe we should invent our own epoch, like the year 2000. Or use a > > really standard one, like the year 0 AD (aka 1 BC). > > > > I have this horror that people will still be using 1970 as the epoch in > > the year 31,536. > Actually, Damian Conway came up with a good one last night. His suggestion was that the time at which we decide what to use as the start of our epoch, should be the time that we use as the start of our epoch. Now that's creating our own history!
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Larry Wall
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Dan Sugalski
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Tom Hughes
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Tim Bunce
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Jeremy Howard
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Damian Conway
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Tim Jenness
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Russ Allbery
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain int... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain interna... skud
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Modifie... Nick Ing-Simmons
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Mod... Tim Jenness
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Modified Jul... Chaim Frenkel
- Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Modified Jul... J. David Blackstone