Hi Dave,
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote:
>
> > t\04epoch.............NOK 25# Failed test (t\04epoch.t
> at line 96)
> > # got: undef
> > # expected: '-2082844800'
> > The 'day' parameter to DateTime::new was an 'undef', which
> is not one of the
> > allowed types: sca
> > at t\04epoch.t line 101
> > # Looks like you planned 28 tests but only ran 25.
> > # Looks like your test died just after 25.
> > t\04epoch.............dubious
> > Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> > DIED. FAILED tests 25-28
> > Failed 4/28 tests, 85.71% okay
>
> What version of Perl do you have installed? I bet this is
> because you're
> using an earlier version of Time::Local, because I have problems with
> these tests using Perl 5.00503 on my Linux box.
I did this test using activestate 5.6.1 So I switched to 5.8.0 and reran
the tests.
results:
t\zz_03components.....ok
t\zz_04epoch..........ok 25/28The 'hour' parameter to DateTime::new was an
'und
of the allowed types: scalar
at t\zz_04epoch.t line 105
# Looks like you planned 28 tests but only ran 25.
# Looks like your test died just after 25.
t\zz_04epoch..........dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 26-28
Failed 3/28 tests, 89.29% okay
Now it does not like the hour parameter!!
[snipped]
>
> This is just weird. Why does Windows think that
>
> infinity - infinity = 0
>
> for the third subtraction, but not the first two? I'm so confused.
>
For these tests the results were the same!!
I am confused as well :(
I wish I could help out more!!
Ron Hill
