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Regarding the difficulty of providing a Time class that accurately captures all the real-world complexity (and at the risk of dragging this OT): Isn't that precisely the goal of the Perl DateTime Project?

I haven't had occasion to use the modules they've produced yet, but what I've read looks promising.

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by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 11, 2004 at 16:32 UTC
    That seems to be trying to encapsulate the complexity of human representations of time.

    That doesn't catch the sophistications to the physical descriptions of time added by special relativity, general relativity, or quantum mechanics. (It is rare in normal programming to encounters those, so the omission makes a lot of sense.)

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