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Postings from September 2000
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:42:50 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote: >>But the OS's idea of the epoch is global! > >No, it isn't! On Mac OS, I can change my epoch by changing my time zone. >If it is harcoded into Config.pm, I am fucked. This is bad. That system is broken. ;-) I guess that it's the same situation on MS-DOS, since there the hardware clock is usually set to local time. It could even happen on Win32?!? This surely was a bad design decision from the hardware guys. Very shortsighted. Anyway, I think that on such systems, globaltime() is derived from localtime(), not the reverse. -- Bart.