On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, John Peacock wrote:
> The t/13strftime.t file has DOS line endings, which causes all tests to fail
> under Cygwin. If that is corrected, then Cygwin tests completely clean.
Really? I can't see them.
> However, I am still seeing the following failures with Win32/VC++:
>
> t\04epoch.t 255 65280 28 3 10.71% 26-28
> t\20infinite.t 3 768 36 3 8.33% 12-14
>
> even after installing the updated Time::Local from CPAN.
>
> Specifically, the first failure is this block:
>
> > {
> > my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => -2082844800 ); #fails here
> > is( $dt->year, 1904, 'year should be 1904' );
> > is( $dt->month, 1, 'month should be 1904' );
> > is( $dt->day, 1, 'day should be 1904' );
> > }
>
> which fails because this code in from_epoch():
>
> > @args{ qw( second minute hour day month year ) } =
> > ( gmtime( delete $p{epoch} ) )[ 0..5 ];
>
> does not, in fact initialize anything in the %args hash:
>
> > %args = (
> > "month" => undef,
> > "day" => undef,
> > "minute" => undef,
> > "year" => undef,
> > "hour" => undef,
> > "second" => undef
> > );
>
> Apparently M$loth's implementation of gmtime() doesn't support negative numbers
> _at all_:
>
> D:\working\DateTime-0.12>perl -e "print '<'.scalar gmtime(1).'>'"
> <Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 1970>
> D:\working\DateTime-0.12>perl -e "print '<'.scalar gmtime(-1).'>'"
> <>
>
> even though time_t is defined as a long integer (not unsigned long):
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_crt_mktime.asp
>
> MORONS!
Indeed. I guess I'll just skip those tests on Win32 for now.
-dave
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