Darren (>), commit-bot (>>): >> -=head2 Time >> +=head1 Current Time >> +The epoch used in Perl 6 to represent time instants is the >> +International Atomic Time - TAI - which is independent of calendars, >> +timezones as well as leap seconds. Of course Perl can't go beyond the >> +machine to get a real TAI value, but it should perform any >> +platform-specific transformation to give you the most precise value it >> +can for the TAI. >> + >> + our Rat sub time() >> + >> +Returns a TAI epoch value for the current time. > > Shouldn't the result type of time() be an "Instant" object (Instant and > Duration are defined in S02) rather than a "Rat"?
I fear that the "Instant" from S02 is a fossil. "Instant" was renamed by Dave Rolsky to "DateTime" on 2009-02-19. <http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-...@perl.org/msg83161.html> > Temporal routines should always be using temporal types when talking about > instants or durations, not more generic types like numbers or strings except > when explicitly converting or extracting a temporal value into one of those > types, such as when displaying it. I agree, I think. // Carl
