Of course not. UNIX time is one frequently encountered though, which is why there are special shortcuts for it. If you want to use a different epoch, say my birthday, that's of course possible as well:
Pike v7.4 release 21 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)
Calendar.Second(1973,06,15,0,0,0)+1000000000;
(1) Result: Second(Mon 21 Feb 2005 1:46:40 MET)
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-06-01 23:52: Subject: Re: Pike Cookbook
It does too. On my system time() returns a value counting the number of seconds from January 1 1970.
Other theoretical offsets are for instance the year zero for a given calendar.
What I'm saying is that unixtime might not be the only time encountered by pike.
/ Peter Lundqvist (disjunkt)