Chipping in very late on this discussion:
Ted Byers r.ted.by...@gmail.com on Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:58:23 -0400
wrote:
But there remains the question of possibly incompatible timezone names as
the author of the location packeg, that gives timezone as a function of
latitude and longitude wrote in
DateTimers,
I got a curious test failure on Windows:
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.14/1400/D/DW/DWHEELER/App-Sqitch-0.911.d/log-20120824T022242.txt
The error was:
Invalid locale name or id: English_United States.1252
The code in question that sets the locale is:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David E. Wheeler wrote:
The code in question that sets the locale is:
$dt-set( locale = POSIX::setlocale( POSIX::LC_TIME() ) );
I'm not sure why you think this would work on Linux either. On my system
here's what I get:
perl -MPOSIX -E 'say
On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
I'm not sure why you think this would work on Linux either. On my system
here's what I get:
perl -MPOSIX -E 'say POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_TIME())'
en_US.UTF-8
Yeah, me too.
That locale will not make DateTime::Locale happy either.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, David E. Wheeler wrote:
That locale will not make DateTime::Locale happy either.
Seems okay with it:
perl -MDateTime -MPOSIX -E 'my $dt = DateTime-now; $dt-set(locale =
POSIX::setlocale( POSIX::LC_TIME() ) ); say $dt-locale'
On Aug 27, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
Heh, go figure. I think I wrote that code, but forgot about it. It strips off
any trailing character set in the locale code.
You were way ahead of yourself, yo. :-)
I found Win32::Locale, which seems to do what I need it to.
Ah, cool.
On 08/27/2012 04:38 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
Yeah. It could probably use an update. I doubt anyone is maintaining it.
Is that right, Sean? Does Win32::Locale need care and feeding?
Basically: yes, and...
Grepping my mailbox, I see three messages in November 2006[!!!] where:
* Bernie
On Aug 27, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Sean M. Burke wrote:
Bernie, are you interested? (if so, what's your PAUSE ID?)
David (Wheeler), are you interested? (if so, what's your PAUSE ID?)
No, I have no access to Windows at all.
Thanks.
David
