At 11:00 PM -0400 4/6/04, John E. Malmberg wrote:

Assorted other issues snipped (I may get back to comment on them at
some point, but no promises).

>>>lib/vmsish...........................FAILED at test 22
>>
>>
>>Any chance you haven't reset the clock since the daylight savings change?
>
>Considering that the build started before the DST, and the tests probably did not 
>finish until after DST, Yes.
>
>But if perl is using different rules than the system is, this could be a problem at 
>other sites.
>
>At my former employer, the time change was delayed until the end of a shift. I hope 
>this does not indicate a window where perl scripts could misbehave.

If there is a discrepancy between your current offset from UTC and
your timezone rule, then something that is explicitly testing that
the two are in synch may run into problems.  Anything that uses UTC or
offsets from it (in short, anything using the standard C library
functions) would have the same problem during the window between the
time change and the system clock being reset.
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