Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, note that the base date is different on Windows ...
... and depending on the compiler version and vendor. This is a snippet
from an app, which of course was written when I was younger, but this
was the code that accumulated to get a "base date" j
At 18:46 +0100 3/3/04, Jos Visser wrote:
>Nahhh Epoch should be 1-1-1970 at 12:00am midnight, *but* we will
>have to allow for negative time values so that we can span either side
>of eternity...
That's not so strange. On of the, very few, things Microsoft has done right is to use
floating po
At 7:15 PM +0100 3/3/04, Jos Visser wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:11:46PM -0500 it came to pass that Dan
Sugalski wrote:
At 6:46 PM +0100 3/3/04, Jos Visser wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:37:09AM -0500 it came to pass that Dan
>Sugalski wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, if we start getting into the
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:11:46PM -0500 it came to pass that Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 6:46 PM +0100 3/3/04, Jos Visser wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:37:09AM -0500 it came to pass that Dan
> >Sugalski wrote:
> >>
> >> FWIW, if we start getting into the "What should our base time for the
> >
At 6:46 PM +0100 3/3/04, Jos Visser wrote:
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:37:09AM -0500 it came to pass that Dan
Sugalski wrote:
FWIW, if we start getting into the "What should our base time for the
epoch be" arguments, I'll warn you that the answer if I have to make
one is probably Nov 17, 1858 at
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 15:02 -1000 2000.08.19, Tim Jenness wrote:
> >I'm of the camp that feels perl should have a fixed epoch rather than the
> >epoch of the underlining OS. Furthermore, I can understand that the OS
> >epoch can also be important when looking outside of pe
At 15:02 -1000 2000.08.19, Tim Jenness wrote:
>I'm of the camp that feels perl should have a fixed epoch rather than the
>epoch of the underlining OS. Furthermore, I can understand that the OS
>epoch can also be important when looking outside of perl. Thinking this
>over for a while it occurred to
