From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:41:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify that it's only Mac OS *Classic* that uses 1904 - OS X uses
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Clarify that it's only Mac OS *Classic* that uses 1904 - OS X uses
1970

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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index ed4077a..f23c8a2 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -6078,9 +6078,10 @@ package.
 =item time
 
 Returns the number of non-leap seconds since whatever time the system
-considers to be the epoch (that's 00:00:00, January 1, 1904 for Mac OS,
-and 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970 for most other systems).
-Suitable for feeding to C<gmtime> and C<localtime>.
+considers to be the epoch, suitable for feeding to C<gmtime> and
+C<localtime>. On most systems the epoch is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970;
+a prominent exception being Mac OS Classic which uses 00:00:00, January 1,
+1904 in the current local time zone for its epoch.
 
 For measuring time in better granularity than one second,
 you may use either the Time::HiRes module (from CPAN, and starting from