RE: leap seconds in DateTime

2008-10-03 Thread Monty, James T
Zefram wrote: >Jim Monty wrote: >>Uh-oh, I don't get the same results with DateTime 0.4304 and ActivePerl >>5.8.8 on Windows XP: > >In the changelog: > >|0.162003-08-06 >| >|[ IMPROVEMENTS ] >| >|- The XS code now implements leap second-related calculations. >| However, this is only used on pl

ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.4305

2008-10-03 Thread Dave Rolsky
0.4305 2008-10-03 - The pure Perl version of this module did not know about the end of 2008 leap second. Reported by James T Monty. -dave /*== VegGuide.Org Your guide to all that's veg ==*/

Re: leap seconds in DateTime

2008-10-03 Thread Zefram
Monty, James T wrote: >Uh-oh, I don't get the same results with DateTime 0.4304 and ActivePerl >5.8.8 on Windows XP: In the changelog: |0.162003-08-06 | |[ IMPROVEMENTS ] | |- The XS code now implements leap second-related calculations. | However, this is only used on platforms where we can

RE: leap seconds in DateTime

2008-10-03 Thread Monty, James T
Zefram wrote: >Jim Monty wrote: >>Please explain this. I've always thought DateTime *does* handle leap >>seconds correctly. > >DateTime `knows', falsely, that there will be no more leap seconds after >the last one that it knows of. You can see this, for example, by asking >what is the UTC time N s