Nathan Wiger wrote:
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> I think we should definitely maintain this in UTC, since this is how
> UNIX works natively. If we're standardizing on the UNIX epoch we should
> standardize on UTC clock as well.
Blech. Now I'm not sure after re-reading the thread starting here:
http://www.mail-archive.c
Russ Allbery wrote:
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> Is Perl keeping UTC or TAI? If we're standardizing on an epoch, we should
> also standardize on a clock; the difference is over ten seconds.
I think we should definitely maintain this in UTC, since this is how
UNIX works natively. If we're standardizing on the UNIX epoc
At 16:09 -0700 2000.09.19, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Was there any resolution as to how one obtains the offset between the
>system clock and the Unix epoch clock on a platform like Mac where
>apparently the system clock is in local time and it may be difficult to
>determine the time zone of the system?
One of the major outstanding issues is still exactly what clock Perl
intends to keep and return from the time command. There has been some
discussion of the difficulties in obtaining the Unix epoch on platforms
where the native system clock is not using the Unix epoch; Nathan, could
you update yo
