Hi DateTimers, I'm looking for a package that will allow a web application to accommodate lots of different time zones very easily and DateTime looked nice. A few questions:
1) I've installed all of the pre-requisites for DateTime on a RedHat 9 box and now when I try to perl Makefile.PL for 0.1705 I get: Testing if you have a C compiler make: *** No rule to make target `testub'. Stop. It also fails to detect a C compiler or pod2man, although right before this I had just installed all of the pre-reqs for this module which had shown no errors. I have a C compiler and pod2man and the path to these (/usr/bin) is in my environment. Any ideas would be appreciated. I even tried bumping DateTime to 0.1703 but no luck. If this isn't just something stupid I've missed or messed up, then I can post more complete information on what perl Makefile.PL is saying and the pre-req versions I have installed today. 2) I read Dave's article (The Many Dates and Times of Perl) which was very helpful -- and it seemed like he was concerned with how large the existing modules got under mod_perl. Do you have any sort of benchmarks or estimations on how much RAM DateTime & DateTime::TimeZone will add to an app? It seems like having hundreds of modules for the time zone conversions could add up fast. I really don't need a lot of the advanced functionality that DateTime provides, I basically just want to be able to convert a stored UTC time into various time zones based on the Olson zones. Am I using the right tool? Thanks, Matt
