On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Mike Schilli wrote:
Adding seconds to a date gets stuck when it reaches a leap second:use DateTime; my $dt = DateTime->new( year => 1972, month => 12, day => 31, hour => 23, minute => 59, second => 55, time_zone => "UTC"); for(1..10) { $dt->add( seconds => 1); print $dt->datetime(), "\n"; } produces 1972-12-31T23:59:56 1972-12-31T23:59:57 1972-12-31T23:59:58 1972-12-31T23:59:59 1972-12-31T23:59:60 1972-12-31T23:59:60 1972-12-31T23:59:60 1972-12-31T23:59:60 1972-12-31T23:59:60 1972-12-31T23:59:60
That is indeed a bug. It'll be fixed in the next release, which assuming I actually came up with a subtraction algorithm that makes sense, will be soon.
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