>> Is Perl currently using different epochs on different platforms? If so, I
>
> Yes. MacOS and VMS. (Though VMS' localtime() uses the UNIX definition,
> just to be portable.) MacOS' epoch zero is 1900 (or was it 1901?),
> VMS' epoch zero is 17-NOV-1858 00:00:00.00, for some astronomical
> rea
> On 14 Aug 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> Day resolution is insufficient for most purposes in all the Perl scripts
>> I've worked on. I practically never need sub-second precision; I almost
>> always need precision better than one day.
>>
>
> MJD allows fractional days (otherwise it would of co
