On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Lyle <webmas...@cosmicperl.com> wrote:

> Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
>> Clever watchdogs can prevent this from bringing down a server, but I think
>> we can all agree that a date library should not be the source of DOS
>> attacks.
>>
>
> Maybe a warning of this in the POD would be enough? Or a more active built
> in restriction on future dates that users of DataTime must manually
> override...
>

Would a global be too ugly for a short-term fix?  $DateTime::MaxFutureYears
= 20;  # no dates more than 20 years from current year.



-- 
Bill Moseley
mose...@hank.org

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