Greetings, My thanks to Eugene and Andrew for their quick replies.
In response to Andrew, it's not that I haven't been reading the docs, it's that I wasn't able to *understand* them. And that's my problem, not the docs. ;) I hadn't realized how fundamentally ambiguous the "fall back" time-change was in local time. Unfortunately, I'm actually stuck with local time, so I'm going to have to hack out a solution. Thanks for the prompting. Mark On Apr 8, 2005 11:01 AM, Mark Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've got a problem. It's probably a misunderstanding on my part. > > Here's a script: > > --- > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use strict; > use warnings; > > use DateTime; > > my $dt1 = > DateTime->new(year => 2004, > month => 10, > day => 31, > hour => 1, > minute => 3, > second => 9, > time_zone => 'America/Edmonton'); > > print $dt1->datetime(), ' => ', $dt1->epoch(), "\n"; > > my $dt2 = > DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => 1099206189, time_zone => > 'America/Edmonton'); > > print $dt2->datetime(), ' => ', $dt2->epoch(), "\n"; > --- > > And here's the output: > > --- > 2004-10-31T01:03:09 => 1099209789 > 2004-10-31T01:03:09 => 1099206189 > --- > > This is a problem because I have dates that are sometimes specified as > human-readable strings and sometimes as seconds-from-the-epoch. I > convert the former to the latter and then go to work, but for my > purposes I need the same date to map to the same epoch. The whole > point of what I'm doing is to match the dates in human-readable string > to the dates as seconds-from-the-epoch. > > What am I doing wrong? > > > Mark >
