Re: [Boston.pm] a question

2017-01-30 Thread Duane Bronson
Those are the daylight savings time changes. Duane. > On Jan 29, 2017, at 1:51 PM, dan moylan wrote: > > > in fiddling with a perl script to calculate the variable > dates dependent on the date of easter, using Time::Local, i > got the wrong answers for shrove tuesday 47 and ash > wednesday 46

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

2017-01-29 Thread dan moylan
bill ricker writes: > This is what makes date math tricky ... Even without mixing > solar and lunar calendars. yes -- i'm learning (i think) -- i switched to Astro::Time -- somewhat more straightforward. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel) j...@mo

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

2017-01-29 Thread Bill Ricker
This is what makes date math tricky ... Even without mixing solar and lunar calendars. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

2017-01-29 Thread dan moylan
ben tilly writes: > Were you surprised by Daylight Savings Time? yes, i was. but then, i asked was i missing something obvious. i knew i'd be embarassed. such is life. thanks. ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel) j...@moylan.us www.moylan.us [n

Re: [Boston.pm] a question

2017-01-29 Thread Ben Tilly
Were you surprised by Daylight Savings Time? On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:32 AM dan moylan wrote: > > > in fiddling with a perl script to calculate the variable > > dates dependent on the date of easter, using Time::Local, i > > got the wrong answers for shrove tuesday 47 and ash > > wednesday 46

[Boston.pm] a question

2017-01-29 Thread dan moylan
in fiddling with a perl script to calculate the variable dates dependent on the date of easter, using Time::Local, i got the wrong answers for shrove tuesday 47 and ash wednesday 46 days before easter. this turned out to be what appears to me as an anomoly in Time::Local at 20170313 where the del

[Boston.pm] a question of style

2002-10-11 Thread GregLondon
John Saylor wrote: > this flies in the face of one of the > greatest strengths [and weaknesses] of perl: TMTOWTDI. I wrote some additions to the Tk::TextUndo module so that it could do "redo" and a bunch of other textedit type features and worked with Nick Ing-Simmons to roll them into the Tk rel