Re: FW: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread drieux
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 04:09 , Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > I think we should petition our OS designers to think > ahead. The short-sightedness of programmers caused > the Y2K issue, we should avoid repeating our mistakes. like dude, relax. according to Moore's law the last CPU upgrade o

Re: FW: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> This is a problem for us historians. I would hope > that perl designers, among others, are thinking > about wide date ranges... AFAIK the Linux kernel people are complaining about having a year 40 (1sf) problem. Obviously, if time travel becomes possible then we'll need a range of several

FW: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Richard Smith
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Time arithmetics... On 4/2/02 1:54 AM, Jonathan E. Paton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for instance between feb 28, 200 and >> jan 30, 2002... > > You must be a historian of some sort, nobody > else is interested in su

RE: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Timothy Johnson
What I want to know is how Methuselah managed to be logged on for so long... -Original Message- From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:47 AM To: 'Michael Kelly'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Time arithmetics... I'd like to

RE: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Nikola Janceski
I'd like to know when Moses logged on. And if you have older logs, who logged on first: the chicken, or the egg? > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Michael Kelly
On 4/2/02 1:54 AM, Jonathan E. Paton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> for instance between feb 28, 200 and >> jan 30, 2002... > > You must be a historian of some sort, nobody > else is interested in such large 'stages' of > time ;-) The question is, what are you doing with log files from the year

Re: Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> I would like to know which is the best way > I can do some basic arithmetic on dates... > for instance... I'll be parsing a bunch of > log lines, and need to "grep" some of them > which date field be between a give stage of > time, Modules... http://perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/lib/Date/Calc.html htt

Time arithmetics...

2002-04-02 Thread Ivan
I guys! I would like to know which is the best way I can do some basic arithmetic on dates... for instance... I'll be parsing a bunch of log lines, and need to "grep" some of them which date field be between a give stage of time, for instance between feb 28, 200 and jan 30, 2002... Any ideas? TI