I wrote (back in October):
Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert are being sued
Having just noticed this thread in my mail archive, I'm reminded that I
ought to post an update for datetime@perl.org readers. The suit was
recently dismissed, voluntarily by the plaintiff, on the grounds that it
was
As part of the plan for replacing DT:TZ, we discussed the need for a way
to list the available timezones, to replace the static DT:TZ:Catalog
document. Attached is a prototype of a command-line tool that could
take this role. I'd appreciate comments about its current operation
and about what it
On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:46 AM, Zefram wrote:
I wrote (back in October):
Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert are being sued
Having just noticed this thread in my mail archive, I'm reminded that I
ought to post an update for datetime@perl.org readers. The suit was
recently dismissed,
This error is correct, there is no Feb 29, 2013.
It could return March 1, 2013... but then adding a year to Feb 29, 2012 and
adding a year and a day give the same result which doesn't make sense.
It does present a problem... how do you reliably say same date next year?
This is very
On 2012.3.2 3:35 PM, David Nicol wrote:
It seems that the root of the difficulty is an exclusivity that there can only
be one date representing each day. The canonical date. Calling February 1 by
the name January 32 is wrong and if you don't stop it, they won't let you
enter third grade, or
If months are day offsets into the year, and day-of-month is the additional
days to add to the offset, and this approach is applied to smaller levels
too, all the screwey questions can fall into place.
And that is how date math works in DateTime. It's just not what the OP did.
2.30a on
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Zefram wrote:
As part of the plan for replacing DT:TZ, we discussed the need for a way
to list the available timezones, to replace the static DT:TZ:Catalog
document. Attached is a prototype of a command-line tool that could
take this role. I'd appreciate comments about its
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Date math is not commutative and this leads to all sorts of problem. They
cannot be dismissed as some silly authoritarian demand.
Indeed, it's not authoritarian. It's more like a nightmare inspired by the
crack-addled madness of our calendar,
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 09:46:44PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Date math is not commutative and this leads to all sorts of problem. They
cannot be dismissed as some silly authoritarian demand.
Indeed, it's not authoritarian. It's more like a
