On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Chris Nandor wrote: > You can only avoid breakage with current scripts if you make no changes to > the current facilities (which is what Andy proposed). Well I have to admit that I was unaware that on Mac and VMS (without the wizardry in vms/vms.c) the value returned by time() could jump behind your back if you were running when DST kicked in or out. If it were just different absolute epochs, I would tend to oppose the proposal (and recognize that I am probably in the minority and hence would gracefully yield anyway.) But this OS "feature" sounds to me like something that Perl should hide from the user. So, Yes, I'm tending to think perl6 probably ought to muck with epochs if possible. [Aside: Does this mean that make(1) is useless for one hour after standard time resumes?] -- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042Thread Previous | Thread Next