Binarus wrote:
>Using DateTime, is it possible to tell in advance if a certain date-time
>which is given in a certain locale will be ambiguous due to switching
>from DST to standard time?
That is tricky. I don't think our APIs provide any way to do it.
Thinking about the facilities available a bi
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> While you could in theory write code that would be correct for all past
> datetimes, the future doesn't work the same way. As Eric noted, time zones
> are political. I have seen DST transitions altered with mere days (or
> less!) notice given.
Thomas (HFM) Wyant wrote:
>One of the edge cases with eval {} is the possibility that $@ gets
>clobbered before you get your hands on it.
The possibility of it being clobbered by a destructor was fixed in 5.14.
(Destructors that do this are considered buggy, for pre-5.14 perls,
and are individuall
While you could in theory write code that would be correct for all past
datetimes, the future doesn't work the same way. As Eric noted, time zones
are political. I have seen DST transitions altered with mere days (or
less!) notice given. This means that anything you determine about the
future could
I don't understand the conditions. The law determines when the switching of
offsets from UTC happen, not some person. The switch doesn't happen at 08:48:27
am in Chicago; it happens at 2am.
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Binarus wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> a few days ago I have got great help f
Dear experts,
a few days ago I have got great help from this list, so I hope I may ask
another (probably stupid) question (I am now having the opposite problem
than back then):
Using DateTime, is it possible to tell in advance if a certain date-time
which is given in a certain locale will be ambi
