Re: Olson - Microsoft mappings

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Fair
Josh, My deepest apologies for misunderstanding the Alias modules both times I read it over. You are totally correct in that Alias is very similar to what I'm looking for and that like what Ben suggested of using submodules of Alias I can get what I'm after. UI for end user selection would

Re: Olson - Microsoft mappings

2003-09-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Joshua == Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joshua You have incorrectly attributed that comment to me. No, he had two chevrons in front of the text. This correctly attributes it as something you quoted. Although, it'd be nice if everyone used Emacs supercite instead of chevrons. :) --

Re: Re: Olson - Microsoft mappings

2003-09-24 Thread rickmeasham
Michael Fair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, So what's the time in Ireland? Do you use Europe/Dublin or Europe/Belfast? What's the difference? Do you expect the end user to know that Dublin and Belfast are in Ireland before they can see the time in Ireland? This is a bit of a beef I

DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Steven J. Weinberger
I'm trying to use DateTime::Event::Sunset in my DateTime::Calendar::Hebrew module, but I'm having a problem. Below is my test code. The results from the code are: 2003-09-24T10:42:00 2003-09-24T22:48:00 Sunrise wasn't at 10:42 and the sun will set well before 22:48. Is there something I'm doing

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Steven J. Weinberger wrote: I'm trying to use DateTime::Event::Sunset in my DateTime::Calendar::Hebrew module, but I'm having a problem. Below is my test code. The results from the code are: 2003-09-24T10:42:00 2003-09-24T22:48:00 Sunrise wasn't at 10:42 and the sun will set well

Re: Re: Olson - Microsoft mappings

2003-09-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a bit of a beef I have (as of earlier today) with the Olson project. I've managed to auto-map about 174 of the olson zones to geographic places but am scared I may have to do the rest by hand. I wish the names were more along the lines

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: Steven J. Weinberger wrote: I'm trying to use DateTime::Event::Sunset in my DateTime::Calendar::Hebrew module, but I'm having a problem. Below is my test code. The results from the code are: 2003-09-24T10:42:00 2003-09-24T22:48:00

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: Steven J. Weinberger wrote: Sunrise wasn't at 10:42 and the sun will set well before 22:48. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I think these results are in UTC time. Hmm, this should probably be changed so that

Re: Olson - Microsoft mappings

2003-09-24 Thread Matt Sisk
Dave Rolsky wrote: You do realize that mapping time zones to countries will take a _lot_ of maintenance, right? Countries are changing all the time. Think back to the end of the cold war, when the USSR dissolved, along with Yugoslavio and Czechoslovakia, and at the same time E W Germany became a

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Steven J. Weinberger wrote: Sunrise wasn't at 10:42 and the sun will set well before 22:48. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I think these results are in UTC time. Hmm, this should probably be changed so that the returned object has the same time_zone as was passed

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Flavio S. Glock wrote: Steven J. Weinberger wrote: Sunrise wasn't at 10:42 and the sun will set well before 22:48. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I think these results are in UTC time. Hmm, this should probably be changed so that the returned object has the

Re: Re: Olson - Microsoft mappings

2003-09-24 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Dave Rolsky said: You do realize that mapping time zones to countries will take a _lot_ of maintenance, right? Just as a FWIW ... http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/PermaLink.aspx/8b23d26b-7e11-425d-b612-13396ef3ec71

ANNOUNCE: DateTime-Set 0.1202

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
DateTime-Set 0.1202 - bug fix: when asking for next after a set_time_zone or add_duration. example: $recurr-add_duration($dur)-next($dt) returns: $recurr-next($dt) - Flavio S. Glock

Re: New Release: DateTime::Calendar::Hebrew

2003-09-24 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:04:22PM -0400, Steven J. Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just in time for the Hebrew new year (5764, this Friday evening) - DateTime-Calendar-Hebrew-0.01.tar.gz has just been uploaded to PAUSE. Enjoy. In README.hebrew you mention: Understanding the Jewish

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: This is what it looks like (tested!): --- #!/usr/local/bin/perl use DateTime; use DateTime::Set 0.1202; use DateTime::Event::Sunrise; my $dt = DateTime-new( year = 2003, month = 9, day= 24, time_zone =

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: my $sunrise = DateTime::Event::Sunrise-sunrise ( longitude ='-73.59', latitude ='40.38', altitude = '-0.833', iteration = '1' )-set_time_zone( 'America/New_York' ); I really don't think we should

Re: DateTime::Event::Sunset problems

2003-09-24 Thread Flavio S. Glock
Dave Rolsky wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Flavio S. Glock wrote: sub _following_sunrise { [ ... initialize ...] my $tz = $dt-time_zone; my $loc = $dt-locale; [ ... some calculations ... ] $tmp_rise-set_time_zone( $tz ); # unless $tz-is_floating ???

Install Problem with DateTime.pm

2003-09-24 Thread Michael and Alice Smith
I'm stumped.. I have a problem installing DateTime.pm. I get a LNK1106 U1077 with the 'nmake' command. The messages for PERL- V and 'nmake' are below. I am using Windows XP and VC++ 5 I have plenty of available space on my hard drive and there are no integrity problems. I have searched