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in reply to New time-related function for Perl

What exactly does this do? If time() returns the number of seconds since the epoch, then 0 would be 0 seconds since the epoch and you can use the normal time functions with time 0 to figure out all the information you need about the epoch, so what exactly does epochtime do?

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(tye)Re: New time-related function for Perl
by tye (Sage) on Apr 02, 2001 at 21:09 UTC 
    +PP(pp_epochtime) 
+{
+  dSP;
+  EXTEND(SP, 1);
+  PUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSViv(0)));
+  RETURN;
+}

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    Yes, this just returns 0. It appears to be an April Fool's joke that many (including the producers of "This week on p5p") didn't get (probably because it wasn't funny).

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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      Well, I thought it was funny, especially because the patch included updates to the documentation and the test suite!

      A joke doesn't have to be obvious to be funny.

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      Says tye:
      many (including the producers of "This week on p5p") didn't get
      Simon did indeed get it. Don't give yourself so much credit.
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