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Postings from September 2000
On 13 Sep 2000 07:10:30 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: >In addition, a C<systime> function should be added which provides access >to the native epoch/system time. For simplification, it might be best if >this C<systime> function remain the basis for other library-related >functions, such as C<stat>, C<lstat>, and so on, which typically rely on >native system time. Eek! No! Next you'll tell me that scalar localtime((stat $file)[9]) will return incorrect results on some platforms! Making time uniform across platforms, so that the numerical value for a certain date/time is independent on the platform, is a good idea, but don't tell me that we'll have two different representations, for which we may or may not need a conversion! ONE time for the whole perl, thank you. n.b. This time value should be independent of time zones or Daylight Savings Time. -- Bart.