Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[email protected] (Andy Dougherty) Thu, 14 Sep 2000 11:59:07 -0400 (EDT)

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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:

> 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?

> 	And I cannot think of a time when I have needed the actual Mac
> value to communicate with another Mac process or library. 

Well, my entire experimental temperature control system currently relies
on just this communication.  But I suspect my personal experience here is
probably not the most common :-).

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    Andy Dougherty		[email protected]
    Dept. of Physics
    Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042