Rick Measham wrote: > I'm aware that it doesn't measure them ... but I'm wondering why? Surely > that makes it Capital-W-Wrong. Perl will return the Wrong number of > elapsed seconds since 1970 ...
That depends on what kind of seconds you are counting. It is right if you are counting mean solar seconds. See http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html#POSIX