What, nobody else had a daylight savings time change issue? Well, I sure did.
I check certain files' modification dates against a modification date stored in a database for the corresponding file. The files were not modified since they were entered into the database, i.e. the dates should have been equal. At about 01:00 on 10-30-2005, things were a bit different. For example, the date stored in the database was 2005-10-17 14:28:10, while after the time changed, the date returned was 2005-10-17 13:28:10, an exact one-hour difference. The modification date was obtained from stat. This did cause some problems. I guess that ideally, the program which performs these comparisons would be aware of when the time changes twice a year to and from daylight savings time and would adjust the returned modification dates. The issue is how to identify within a Perl program the time changes. Note that this action is occurring on Windows-based servers and if I examine the file in the above example's modification date using Windows Explorer, it is reported as 2005-10-17 13:28:10. To compound this, I have heard that the time-change schedule would be changed in 2006 so that DST would start 2-weeks earlier and end 1-week later. Is there a way to determine DST changes in Perl through a module, etc.? Or would one have to manually account for the DST schedule every year? Dirk Bremer - Senior Systems Engineer - ESS/AMS - NISC Lake St. Louis MO - USA Central Time Zone 636-755-2652 fax 636-755-2503 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nisc.coop _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
