Dave Rolsky wrote: > > It's just that it has to generate _all_ > the time zone changes up to the year 9999!! > > That's going to take a while. I'd recommend using a year a little closer > to our own. DT::TZ ships with the changes pre-generated 30 years out, so > dates in that range are quick. Dates within a couple hundred years out > aren't too bad either, but thousands of years ahead will be slow.
Is this really necessary? It could generate sparse time-zone tables. (Date::Set::Timezone does this - maybe some ideas can be reused) - Flavio S. Glock