[MOBY-dev] Last minute change to RFC1913

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hiya, 

I've changed the 1913 RFC such that the timestamp is in GMT (suffixed
with a "Z").

At the level of the MOBY::Central code, it is using the following call
to generate the timestamp:  

        gmtime(time())

However, the time() function returns different values on Mac vs
Windows/*nix OS's (the Epoch is not the same in the Mac world,
apparently!)

Can someone with a Mac please confirm that the gmtime function in Perl
will correctly report GMT on a Mac (or is this problem solved with OS-
X?)?  I want to be sure that the MOBY Central code is portable, and
reporting correctly if we are going to start suggesting that people can
actually use this timestamp for anything important.

I take it that nobody has any objections in principle to this change?

M
P.S.  to report gmtime(time) in a human-readable form retrieve it as a
scalar rather than in list context - print scalar(gmtime(time))




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