Em Dom, 2010-02-21 às 21:28 -0800, Larry Wall escreveu: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:39:20AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: > : I just want to know what Perl 6 time zero is. > Well, there's no such thing as time 0 in Perl 6, in the sense that > Instant is more-or-less opaque.
I'd just like to add that Instant is not "more-or-less" opaque. It is "entirely" opaque. That basically means it probably is architecture and implementation dependant. The point is... asking for "the amount of seconds since 01/01/1970" requires you to convert that date, in a particular timezone in a particular calendar (gregorian) to an instant, then ask for the amount of seconds elapsed from that instant to the current instant (and that will return you a Duration object (which conceptually only know about TAI), which in turn can be converted (provided a timezone and a calendar) to a Gregorian::Duration. daniel
