> > I'm not sure anyone does that much in the way of time/date work that it'd
> > make a difference. Besides, we're talking internal here--time() may still
> > return Unix epoch seconds for compatibility reasons.
>
> Blah! I saw the prosal for an mjdate() routine and thought it was at
> the language level for some reason. This RFC should go to -internals
> so that I don't get confused that way :-)
Hey wait, you're both right! :-)
The idea would be twofold:
1. time() would still return UNIX epoch time. However, it
would not be in core, and would not be the primary
timekeeping method. It would be in Time::Local for
compatibility (along with localtime and gmtime).
2. mjdate() would return MJD. It _would_ be in core, and
it _would_ be the internal timekeeping method. All
of the new date functions would be designed to be based
off of it.
So, just to clarify:
1. The Perl 5 way in Perl 6:
use Time::Local;
$date = localtime time();
2. The Perl 6 native way:
$date = date mjdate();
Make sense?
-Nate
