Dave Rolsky wrote: > See, some people think it should be another attribute, > other think that seconds should be floating point. > Personally, I don't know. > But if it's another attribute it needs a precision. > I don't want to call it "fractional seconds" and let > each user decide, because that kills inter-operability.
I had that problem in Date::Tie, and I solved it by storing "integer-seconds" and "fraction-of-seconds" separately: ($int_second, $frac_second) = f( 1234.4567 ); # $int_second = 1234 # $frac_second = 0.4567 This way, frac_second if a full-precision real (at least 9 digits), whatever the value of int_second. The parser actually splits on /[\.\,]/, such that it works in many languages (some languages use comma as the separator). - Flavio S. Glock
