On Thu, 22 May 2008 07:37:11 -0500, "Craig A. Berry"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 8:30 AM +0200 5/22/08, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> >On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:29:13 -0500, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> A todo for VMS:
> >>
> >> In [EMAIL PROTECTED], 07arith.t is dying on test 11.
> >>
> >> From the comments, it seems that it is expecting the _strptime function
> >> (or something) to convert '2001-2-29' to '2001-3-1'.
> >
> >It's like this since a long time on all HP-UX too, and Steve P traced
> >it to be some XS problem last night.
> >
> >Matt did not (yet) reply to my mails.
> >
> >> Instead it is failing with the message "Error parsing time at
> > > ../lib/Time/Piece.pm line 615, <DATA> line 17.
>
> I noticed this too. On VMS it boils down to passing to strptime a
> time string for 29 February 2001, but unless I've lost some time
> myself, 2001 was not a leap year, so it's not a valid time. The
> standard for strptime is silent about what level of validation, if
> any, should be done on the incoming time string.
>
> Here's VMS:
>
> $ perl -MTestInit -"MTime::Piece" -"E" "say join '|',
> Time::Piece::_strptime('2001-2-29 12:34:56', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S');"
> Error parsing time at -e line 1.
>
> Here's Mac OS X:
>
> % ./perl -MTestInit -"MTime::Piece" -E "say join '|',
> Time::Piece::_strptime('2001-2-29 12:34:56', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S');"
> 56|34|12|1|2|101|4|59|0|0|0
>
> If I'm reading this right, Mac OS X (and probably other BSDs) is
> interpreting this as the first of March, which doesn't make much
> sense to me, but may have a rationale behind it. In any case,
> Time::Piece seems to depend on this non-portable behavior, and even,
> as John noted, to be specifically testing for it.
I RT'd it:
http://rt.cpan.org//Ticket/Display.html?id=36106
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