Matt S Trout wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:05:14PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
Time::ParseDate works nice, providing dates are >= epoch (1970-01-01).
But it's not much use for dates of birth, at least for an adult
population. For a date before 1970, Time::ParseDate parsedate() does
generate the $no_of_seconds_since_epoch (a negative number), but
DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => $no_of_seconds_since_epoch ) dies as it
seems unable to handle a negative number of seconds.
That's a bug. Report it to DateTime's rt queue and see about sorting out
a patch (I just checked with the author and he's happy to take one).
Well it would be if it were actually true, alas I cannot reproduce it so
I reckon I must have been mistaken, sorry :-(
An unlikely bug anyway come to think of it as it would have been amazing
if no-one had noticed a problem before when using pre-1970 dates.
So my date handling functions are all working nicely now. Thanks all.
--
Richard Jones
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