Em Dom, 2010-02-21 às 21:09 -0800, Larry Wall escreveu: > I now see that the most important determinant of DateTimes is > neither the Dates nor the Times themselves, but which TZ you're in. > I propose renaming Temporal to TZ, so we get TZ::Date, TZ::Time, etc, > since they're all dependent primarily on exactly where on earth you > are, which determines how civil (or incivil) your cultural time is. > It will also tend to prevent people from assuming anything universal > about such types.
This issue was addressed when we got into the difference between Instant and DateTime. The thing is, much like a Str can't be seen as a Buf without an encoding... a Instant can't be seen as a Date without a timezone... That's the barrier between Instant and DateTime, as currently stated at S32/Temporal.pod... Take a look at all the classes and roles declared there... daniel
