Hill, Ronald wrote:
fails horrably on windows :( I posted this on CLPM maybe someone has something on this.
It's even documented that way now in bleadperl:
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-05/msg00495.html
And to follow up on that, it appears that POSIX used the C definition for gmtime() and it does not *explicitely* require support for negative time_t values. It appears that DEC implementated negative time_t support and other vendors added it as well (AIX 3.2.5 has it for example).
Dopes! If you aren't going to support negative numbers, why use long integer (and give rise to the Y2038 issue)?
John
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