On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > You should still switch to Time::Object. Loading POSIX.pm still loads in
> > the .so which contains loads of cruft for things you don't
> > want/need. Whereas loading Time::Object is a lot smaller. Of course I'm
> > not sure how you'd fix the isdst thing with Time::Object, since it does
> > strftime internally...
>
> Perhaps you could add something like ht_time() has - it takes a third
> argument indicating whether the time passed is UTC. If it is, it uses
> gmtime internally, otherwise it uses localtime. And it looks like
> ht_time()'s implementation of gmtime() properly returns the time zone
> and doesn't add in DST stuff. Is that doable in Time::Object, or are you
> using Perl's gmtime() there?
Its doable - I could add in the code for ht_time almost verbatim, although
I *am* using Perl's gmtime.
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