Re: epoch for time

2000-08-20 Thread Tim Jenness
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

Re: epoch for time

2000-08-20 Thread Chris Nandor
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

epoch for time

2000-08-19 Thread Tim Jenness
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 me that time() currently has no arguments and th