On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Sagar Shah wrote: > Please put aside the different formatting. What i would like to > highlight is that date reports time in BST whereas DateTime->now reports > time in UTC. > > Given perl's DWIM ideology, should now actually report BST for my case?
No, because we can't reliably determine the local time zone on all platforms yet, and we may never be able to do so. > If it should stay as it is. Do people think it might be worth adding a > warning in the documentation for inexperienced users so they realise > what they are getting? Or do people feel the documentation is > sufficiently clear already? I'll add something to the docs, which don't even mention this currently (oops). -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
