On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:12:03AM -0400, Scott R. Godin wrote: > > I was surprised to find that Date::Parse actually had these value limits > > hard-coded into itself and wasn't utilizing the underlying library > > functions to determine its acceptable ranges somehow. > > I posted up some proof-of-concept code for that to be done in Config.pm, > determine the range limitations of localtime() during the Perl build and > use that to generate sensible localtime() warnings when trying to process > dates outside its acceptable range. > > And then there's a crazier idea of incorporating our own date handling code > which doesn't have the cramped range of the system's localtimes, but I > don't know how to do that.
Start here: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2005j.tar.gz Adjust for portability and uncramped range. Integrate into perl.
