Re: r28213 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-09-09 Thread Darren Duncan
Mark J. Reed wrote: I think there's some confusion around the term "epoch" in this doc. TAI is not an "epoch", and neither is a time value measured in fixed units from some starting point. The starting point is the epoch. One may speak of the UNIX epoch (January 1, 1970 at midnight GMT), but th

Re: r28213 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-09-09 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2009-09-09 às 09:07 -0400, Mark J. Reed escreveu: > I would change the doc to refer to TAI as a "time scale", and also > avoid referring to the numerical value of an Instant as an "epoch". I knew there was something wrong in my use of that terms, please fix it if you like... daniel

Re: r28213 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-09-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
I think there's some confusion around the term "epoch" in this doc. TAI is not an "epoch", and neither is a time value measured in fixed units from some starting point. The starting point is the epoch. One may speak of the UNIX epoch (January 1, 1970 at midnight GMT), but the current time_t value