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