[MOBY-dev] Last minute change to RFC1913

[Pieter Neerincx]

On 31-Jan-2006, at 1:51 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> 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.

Hi Mark,

Just checked it on a Mac running OS X. Both time() and gmtime() work  
exactly the same as on my Linux box :). Remember OS X is a nice  
custom Apple GUI, but on top of a Free BSD clone. The old OS 9 and  
before might be a completely different story, but I haven't used it  
in years :). I don't think there is a single vendor that still  
supports OS 9, so I don't think we should worry about it either: OS 9  
is museum-ware :).

Cheers,

Pi

>
> 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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