On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:19:34 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>And yes, sometimes the OS is completely lacking in knowledge of a
>time zone.
This problem isn't new. Currently, Perl must know the timezone to be
able to correctly generate gmtime() and localtime().
--
Bart.
At 9:17 -0400 2000.09.15, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> "CN" == Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>CN> At 22:19 -0400 2000.09.14, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>>> If you want to adjust for timezones just calculate the constant. Which
>>> since you are giving it in HHMM format you might as well just
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:58:08 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dougherty wrote:
>[Aside: Does this mean that make(1) is useless for one hour after
>standard time resumes?]
That'll teach you. You shouldn't be programming in the middle of the
night.
--
Bart.
> "CN" == Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> my_time_in_local_epoc
>> + current_os_epoch_offset
>> - timezone_ofset_in_seconds
>> = time_in_unix_epoch_seconds
CN> But again, I don't know what you are trying to say. Are you saying we
CN> should have some global "constant"? If so, y
At 15:55 -0400 2000.09.15, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>CN> * We do not know if it will always be this simple for every platform
>
>Hard to see how the three variables wouldn't cover the spectrum.
Very hard to see, until we know what the disparate platforms might require. :)
>CN> * You might need to
> "CN" == Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This new module to cover your feature would require that it know every
>> known epoch and timesystem (or at least the useful ones.) Something
>> this domain knowledgable shouldn't be in CORE.
CN> Why? File::Spec is in the core. So are m
At 17:11 -0400 2000.09.15, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>> "CN" == Chris Nandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> This new module to cover your feature would require that it know every
>>> known epoch and timesystem (or at least the useful ones.) Something
>>> this domain knowledgable shouldn't be in
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Replace localtime() and gmtime() with date() and utcdate()
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2000
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTE
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
> You can only avoid breakage with current scripts if you make no changes to
> the current facilities (which is what Andy proposed).
Well I have to admit that I was unaware that on Mac and VMS (without the
wizardry in vms/vms.c) the value returned by time
