Perl > perl6-language-datetime > August 2000

NOTICE: reply-to set to the -language-datetime list. Ted Ashton writes: This works, provided epoch seconds are stored in some form of big integers (either arbitrary precision, or 64-bit). The epoch ...

TAI is an international time standard. It has a number of technical advantages over UTC. One of these advantages is that it doesn't have any silly truck with leap seconds. Dan Bernstein has defined a ...

Hello This is a follow up to various discussions about localtime() and time objects on the other lists. I hope this is not out of scope as all this could be done already with Perl 5 and a module ...

I'm of the camp that feels perl should have a fixed epoch rather than the epoch of the underlining OS. Furthermore, I can understand that the OS epoch can also be important when looking outside of ...