Re: Problems with DateTime::TimeZone->short_name_for_datetime()

[Ben Bennett]

Oh.  Duh.  I took the line "This class has the following methods" to
mean that it was a class method not an object method.  Dunno why I
read it like that, everything is pretty clearly intended to be called
through an object.

Anyway, DateTime's time_zone_short_name method was actually what I
should have been using since I don't have a TZ object the TZ should be
able to tell me it's short name...

 Thanks,

 -ben

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:50:39PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote:
> 
> > my $short = DateTime::TimeZone->short_name_for_datetime($dt);
> 
> This is an object method, not a class method.
> 
> > On a related note, while trying to chase this problem I noticed that
> > DT::TZ->span_for_datetime() compares $type to "UTC" to determine $end,
> > but all of the callers are passing in "utc".
> 
> That's a bug.  Now I just need to figure out how to test it.
> 
> 
> -dave
> 
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Re: Problems with DateTime::TimeZone->short_name_for_datetime()

[Dave Rolsky]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Ben Bennett wrote:

> my $short = DateTime::TimeZone->short_name_for_datetime($dt);

This is an object method, not a class method.

> On a related note, while trying to chase this problem I noticed that
> DT::TZ->span_for_datetime() compares $type to "UTC" to determine $end,
> but all of the callers are passing in "utc".

That's a bug.  Now I just need to figure out how to test it.


-dave

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Problems with DateTime::TimeZone->short_name_for_datetime()

[Ben Bennett]

Code that exhibits the problem:
--
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use DateTime;
use DateTime::TimeZone;

my $dt= DateTime->new(year => 2003, month => 6, time_zone => "America/New_York");
my $short = DateTime::TimeZone->short_name_for_datetime($dt);
print "$short\n";
--

The error:
--
Can't use string ("DateTime::TimeZone") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/DateTime/TimeZone.pm line 287.
--

On a related note, while trying to chase this problem I noticed that
DT::TZ->span_for_datetime() compares $type to "UTC" to determine $end,
but all of the callers are passing in "utc".

   -ben