Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:39:20AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: : I just want to know what Perl 6 time zero is. Well, there's no such thing as time 0 in Perl 6, in the sense that Instant is more-or-less opaque. But it's currently specced to the TAI epoch, if you force it. I could be argued into 20

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:20:22PM -0800, Steve Allen wrote: : On Feb 19, 10:30 pm, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote: : > 2000 would have been a lovely epoch if only the astronomers had kept : > their grubby hands off of civil time. : : The astronomers might love to have the power to control some

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-21 Thread Steve Allen
On Feb 19, 10:30 pm, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote: > 2000 would have been a lovely epoch if only the astronomers had kept > their grubby hands off of civil time. The astronomers might love to have the power to control something like that, but I'm afraid that none who are alive now can take cr