Re: [MacPerl] "Epoch-making difference"--time()

[Don Blaheta <blahedo@quincy.edu>]

Matthias asks:
> Another question is whether you *have* to special case for MacPerl at
> all. Would it maybe be possible to make your library auto-calibrating by
> calling something like gmtime(0) at the beginning?

Would it be difficult and/or unreasonable to have some variable
$Macperl::UNIX_Epoch which, if set, would use the 1970 date instead of
1904?  I can certainly see where both would be useful, but 1904 should
stay the default to accomodate the current wealth of Macperl scripts
written around it.

> Matthias

Don

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