On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:29:58AM -0600, John J. Trammell wrote:
> One solution I heard on the Perl 6 list was to use a 64-bit floating
> point value for time, and to reset the Epoch to 1 January 2000.  I'm
> not sure what I think about this.

Time sucks - timezones, DST, 2k38 bug..  If anyone is actually
considering creating a new epoch, I will organize protest marches..  

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
choose from." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum 

(so lets not make more.  please.  pretty pretty please.)

Dan