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>>>>> "AD" == Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> writes: AD> In my humble opinion, I think perl's time() ought to just call the C AD> library's time() function and not waste time mucking with the return AD> value. Instead, if the time is to be stored externally for later use by AD> another program, the programmer should be responsible for converting the AD> time into a suitably useful and portable format. Any unilateral choice AD> made by Perl6 in that regard isn't going to be of any help unless everyone AD> else (Java, Python, C, etc.) follows along. Possibly a few functions to make it easy. $Perl::EpochOffset 0 on a unix box 966770660 on a Mac (Lifted from pudge's previous email) etc. Then on output. print time()-$Perl::EpochOffset; One other that might be useful is have strftime() (or something similar) built-in without having to use POSIX; and the default should be YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.fffffff, (the ISO format) I personally prefer to pass around the string representation, more that perl and unix systems need to handle datetime. (And I find it easier to read the ISO version than a time in seconds) <chaim> -- Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. chaimf@pobox.com +1-718-236-0183Thread Previous | Thread Next