Re: ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.23

[Dave Rolsky]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
Dave Rolsky schreef:
Anyway, enjoy ...
0.23    2004-12-09 (the "oh how I hate leap seconds" release)
Dave, I don't really know how to tell you, but...
   use DateTime;
   print "DateTime $DateTime::VERSION\n";
   $dt = DateTime->new(year => 1997, month => 7, day => 1,
                       hour => 1, minute => 0, second => 0,
                       time_zone => '0100');
   print "$dt local = ";
   $dt->set_time_zone('UTC');
   print "$dt UTC\n";
prints
   DateTime 0.23
   1997-07-01T01:00:00 local = 1997-07-01T00:00:-01 UTC
The conversion to UTC is 1 second off between (and including) the local
datetimes 1997-07-01T01:00:00 and 1997-07-01T23:59:59, that is, from
the second after a leap second, until the end of the day.
This includes
   $dt = DateTime->new(year => 1997, month => 7, day => 1,
                       hour => 23, minute => 59, second => 59,
                       time_zone => '0100');
which results in
   1997-07-02T00:00:-01 local = 1997-07-01T22:59:58 UTC
Grr.  I think I know what this is, and fixing it shouldn't be too hard. 
Look for a 0.24 sometime soon.

-dave
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