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At 10:08 -0400 2000.09.14, Andy Dougherty wrote: >This is not a simple either-or. Suppose you are using a Mac and that >perl6 decides to use the Unix epoch. Suppose you want to communicate with >other Mac programs or library functions about time (e.g. perhaps by >calling things through the XS interface or by storing to a file). Since >the perl6 time() and C time() will now disagree about what time it is, >even the non-lazy programmer will have to use $Perl::EpochOffset >everywhere. There's also the possibility of time accepting an argument, where 0 would be perl's time and 1 would be native time, or something. -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next