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At 11:15 -0400 2000.09.14, Charles Lane wrote: >I've been in the Epoch !=0 mode and it sucked. I vote for Epoch=0 as >the default. Well, Perl is about making things easy. What is the most common case, needing an arbitrary value of time that may or may not be used to transfer between platforms, or needing a value of time that is specific to a given platform? As noted, I can rarely rely on the Mac value anyway, since it changes with time zone. And I cannot think of a time when I have needed the actual Mac value to communicate with another Mac process or library. If the Perl epoch were used for MacPerl, I don't think I would _ever_ need to get the Mac OS epoch (though I would certainly want it available if necessary). I can't say the same for VMS, or for other Mac users. -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next