Re: FAQ

2003-06-03 Thread Flavio S. Glock
FAQ said: 2.3: Why do I need to truncate dates? ... Of course if you are trying to work out if an hour long meeting is going on now then you should truncate to hours... but for that kind of thing you probably want a DateTime::Span RFC - Do we need something like this? $span =

WAS: RH9: Cannot determine ...

2003-06-03 Thread Rick Measham
I'm having problems with RedHat 9. Now it could just be my install, but someone might be able to help me. I know this is offtopic, but the problem only reared it's head when installing DateTime. The problem is this: in shell, I can't type a quote without a seqeunce such as [quote][x][delete].

RE: RH9: Cannot determine ...

2003-06-03 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Rick, I'm having problems with RedHat 9. Now it could just be my install, but someone might be able to help me. I know this is offtopic, but the problem only reared it's head when installing DateTime. The problem is this: in shell, I can't type a quote without a seqeunce such as

Re: installing DateTime-TimeZone-0.17 on HPUX 10.20... or Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread John Peacock
Hill, Ronald wrote: I was not able to get this to work with the HP make utility However, I installed gmake and it works!!! I was able to install the DateTime-TimeZone-0.17. Where do we document these kinda things? Rather than document it, is there any way to fix the Makefile to have 32 1k lines

Re: installing DateTime-TimeZone-0.17 on HPUX 10.20... or Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread Ben Bennett
I will add it to the FAQ... -ben On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:46:54AM -0700, Hill, Ronald wrote: Hi Jean Ben, From Ben Bennet (Fri, 30 May 2003 15:24:13 -0400) OK, it looks like it is bombing because of all of the modules to install... each timezone module looks like: [snipped]

Re: installing DateTime-TimeZone-0.17 on HPUX 10.20... or Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread Ben Bennett
I still think it is a MakeMaker problem, has anyone reported it to them? I plan on adding it to the FAQ until we get it resolved properly. -ben On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:24:24AM -0700, Hill, Ronald wrote: Hi John, Rather than document it, is there any way to fix the

Re: installing DateTime-TimeZone-0.17 on HPUX 10.20... or Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote: I still think it is a MakeMaker problem, has anyone reported it to them? And are you guys using the latest MakeMaker? I think this might have been fixed in the new beta versions. -dave /*=== House Absolute Consulting

Re: FAQ

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: FAQ said: 2.3: Why do I need to truncate dates? ... Of course if you are trying to work out if an hour long meeting is going on now then you should truncate to hours... but for that kind of thing you probably want a DateTime::Span RFC - Do

Re: FAQ

2003-06-03 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Dave Rolsky wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: RFC - Do we need something like this? $span = DateTime::Span-hour( $dt ); $span = DateTime::Span-day( $dt ); ... What does this do? It is a shortcut to build frequently-used spans: $dt = DateTime-new(

Re: FAQ

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: Dave Rolsky wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: RFC - Do we need something like this? $span = DateTime::Span-hour( $dt ); $span = DateTime::Span-day( $dt ); ... What does this do? It is a shortcut to

RE: installing DateTime-TimeZone-0.17 on HPUX 10.20... or Cygwin

2003-06-03 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Dave, On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote: I still think it is a MakeMaker problem, has anyone reported it to them? And are you guys using the latest MakeMaker? I think this might have been fixed in the new beta versions. -dave I just installed

RE: Windows once more

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote: I was not able to find the Time::Local module on CPAN Yeah, it's not there yet. t\20infinite..NOK 12# Failed test (t\20infinite.t at line 55) # got: '1.#QNAN' # expected: '-1.#IND' t\20infinite..NOK 13# Failed

RE: Patch DateTime-0.12 on HPUX Perl 5.8.0

2003-06-03 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Dan, * Hill, Ronald [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say... On Fri, 30 May 2003, Dan Sully wrote: HPUX doesn't have finite() - it has isfinite() instead. Not my HPUX box. I'm running 10.20 and the HP ANSI C compiler I tried the make test and here is a listing

RE: Windows once more

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote: ARGH! I give up. Someone else is going to have to fix this on Windows at this point, or maybe I'll just disable these tests on Win32. -dave Oh, Dave please don't give up. We need this for all Platforms Otherwise, modules that use

RE: Windows once more

2003-06-03 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi Dave, On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote: I can't even get it to work on HPUX :( Try removing the ifdef _HPUX_SOURCE part entirely. -dave I removed the section you suggested Still no joy :( Ron Hill

FAQ outstanding questions...

2003-06-03 Thread Ben Bennett
Typos in POD that I spotted during FAQ development: 1) DateTime::Format::Strptime: This method is synonymous with DateTime's strptime method. 2) DateTime: DateTime does not if second values greater than 59 are valid based on current leap seconds, and invalid values simply cause an

Re: FAQ outstanding questions...

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote: 2) What is the overlap between DateTime::Format::Builder and DateTime::Format::Strptime? Which is preferred? Yeah, I'd like to know too. 4) Wasn't this [the DateTime constructor croaking on bad dates] going to be overridable? Not unless someone