Thanks Edward. FWIW (and I should probably have mentioned this in my original post), I'm running OS X 10.1.4, and Perl 5.6.1, which I compiled myself. I don't remember POSIX tests failing, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
It might make sense to write a comprehensive stftime test app in C to see how it differs from what my Perl script found. I would do it, but I'm JAPH. ;-) BTW, where can I check out the existing bug reports? Thanks, David On 4/26/02 12:10 PM, "Edward Moy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: > There is an existing bug report, at least about the %Z problem: > > 2861261 - Bug in Perl's POSIX library in OSX 10.1.2 > > I will attach your message about the other ones. > > I stumbled on the %Z problem myself, and for my needs, have worked around > it by using Date::Format. But I seem to think that the problem is not the > system level strftime, since I vaguely remember writing a test C program, > and %Z worked there. My sense is that the POSIX interface to strftime is > somehow not working fully. > > For those of you who have built other versions of Perl under Mac OS X and > run the tests, POSIX is one of the tests that fails, though not about > dates, but something else (which I'm not remembering right of the top of > my head). So I suspect there are problems with the POSIX module under Mac > OS X, but haven't had the time to further investigate. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Edward Moy > Apple Computer, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 15726394 http://david.wheeler.net/ Yahoo!: dew7e Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
