Re: How to Compute Hours In a Day?

2008-10-20 Thread jim . monty
Eugene van der pijll wrote: Jim Monty schreef: I want to iterate the time zones of the world to generate a report of all days that aren't exactly 24 hours. I want to handle America/Caracas and America/Sao_Paulo correctly. You mentioned 2007-12-09 was 24.5 hours long in Venezuela. This is

Re: How to Compute Hours In a Day?

2008-10-20 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Here's my first shot at a script. It combines Zefram's suggestion to use $dt-epoch() and Eugene's recommendation to measure the intervals at noon instead of at midnight. Next, I'd like to refactor it using...um...I'm not sure, but something other than $dt-epoch(). I

Re: How to Compute Hours In a Day?

2008-10-20 Thread Zefram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     C:\perl oddhours.pl 2007     2007-12-09  24.5  America/Caracas     2007-03-11  22    America/Indiana/Winamac     2007-03-25  24.5  Australia/Lord_Howe     2007-10-28  23.5  Australia/Lord_Howe Interesting, Australia/Lord_Howe does a half-hour DST shift every year.