On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jonathan Worthington wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just been looking at the time op, and what it returns is somewhat
>> platform specific.
>>
>> * On Win32, it's the number of seconds since January 1, 1601
>
> If I remember correctly, some parts of Windows use 100ns ticks since 1601 to
> represent time. Not sure if computers were in common use in the 17th
> century, though.
>
>> * In other codepaths, it appears to be the number of seconds since January
>> 1, 1970.
>>
>> I'm thinking we should correct the Win32 version to do the same as the
>> others for consistency? Or should we keep these platform specific and make
>> code that cares check what OS we are on and work it out (don't like this
>> option so much, since we're meant to be abstracting the OS away...)
>>
>> Opinions?
>
> +1 for using seconds since 1970. I can adjust this if you guys agree.
>
we definitely need date/time pmc(s?) not only to have a common epoch
across platforms, but to deal with 2038. in particular, we should
leverage schwern's work on perl to address the 2038 bug.
~jerry
