Why? What is the gain? Perl only runs on the local machine.
As long as one can increment and take the difference what difference
does the epoch make?
What is of more interest would be knownig the valid range of time
supported on each platform. Even if you standardize the epoch, the
platform may be unable to calculate to the epoch.
<chaim>
>>>>> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PRL> =head1 ABSTRACT
PRL> Currently, internal time in Perl is maintained via C<time>, which is
PRL> highly system-dependent. On some systems, this is relative to the UNIX
PRL> epoch, while others use their own epochs (MacPerl uses 1904, for
PRL> example).
PRL> All versions of Perl on all platforms should maintain time both
PRL> internally and externally as seconds since the UNIX epoch (00:00:00 01
PRL> Jan 1970 UTC).
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