Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

[Rich Bowen]

On Sun, 6 May 2001 20:57:46 +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen said:

> On 2001-05-06 13:29:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  >
>  > > Given that the average case for the format I proposed is 128 bits[*]
>  > > [...]
>  > 
>  > Hmm? second-precision TAI is 64 bits, nanosecond is 64+32 and
>  > attosecond precision is 64+32+32. how is this ever going to average to
>  > 128?
>  
>  Sorry, I meant the ASCII representation, not TAI. YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSZ is
>  128 bits long.
>  
>  > In any case, I think building our base date/time module around libtai
>  > would be a good idea.
>  
>  Perhaps so. I'll write Time::TAI and we'll see how useful it is, ok?

It would also be really nice to have some sort of consensus as to what goes in
Date:: and what goes in Time::  I suppose that's probably a little too much to
expect without an edict from some of the modules gods.

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Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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