Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:17:16PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> Sorry, I don't buy that. Not every program will be perl. Plus you are
> assuming that epoch seconds are good everywhere. And even if it were
> why should any other program use the same epoch.

Well, we're not talking about *every* program...just those written in
Perl.  And epoch seconds *are* good everywhere if we make them good in
Perl.

> The only valid interchange would be to specify the date unambiguously,
> for example the ISO <mumble, help me Jarkko>  YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.fff

That's an interface problem where perl meets the rest of the world.

-Scott
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