ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.1401

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
Unicode is so broken in 5.6.x ... 0.1401 2003-07-24 [ BUG FIXES ] - Fix a test failure in 13strftime.t under Perl 5.6.1 (and probably 5.6.0). -dave /*=== House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com ===*/

Re: DateTime::Language::Esperanto

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > Is there a good way to determine whether to not to return Unicode > strings? That's what I'm doing now, but obviously it's not so nice at > the console. I don't do much serious work with Unicode in Perl, and > there might be an obvious solution I don'

Re: DateTime::Language::Esperanto

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Ben Bennett wrote: > I hate to say this but the language stuff may be deprecated in favor > of locales... > > But if you are willing to convert this to a locale definition I would > like to ask you about some extra stuff for my DateTime::Format::Common > parser. But I am not

ANNOUNCE: Time::Local 1.07_93

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
Again, test results on non-UNIX platforms are appreciated. 1.07_93 2003-07-23 - Henrik's code explicitly didn't work with negative epoch values, which is not good. Now we assume that they are allowed, except on MacOS, which is known to use an unsigned int for time_t. - Document that dates befo

ANNOUNCE: DateTime 0.14

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
Well, here goes nothing ... Still need to get to the root of the infinite number problems of Win32. Volunteers wanted ... 0.14 2003-07-23 [ BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBILITIES ] - The DateTime::Language modules are no longer being developed or distributed as part of the DateTime.pm distribution.

ANNOUNCE: DateTime::Locale 0.01

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
Not terribly exciting by itself, but look for DateTime.pm 0.14 coming soon, which will make use of this. -dave /*=== House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com ===*/

Re: DateTime::Language::Esperanto

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > You'll have to generate the locale files from the icu-xml descriptions > (instructions are in the dist). Or if you wait about a week DT::Locale > will hopefully be released to CPAN (crosses arms, looks at Dave). Poof, done. /*===

namespace docs

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
For those of you that don't track DT CVS commits I added ./docs/datetime-namespace.pod to the website about a week ago along with some other minor changes to the developer docs. I'd already updated the pod version to reflect the changes coming in '0.14' but I hadn't synced this with the html ve

Re: DateTime::Language::Esperanto

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> I hate to say this but the language stuff may be deprecated in favor > of locales... Maybe eq 'is' in what will soon be released as DateTime '0.14'. > But if you are willing to convert this to a locale definition I would > like to ask you about some extra stuff for my DateTime::Format::Common >

[FYI] FW: Computing moonrise with perl

2003-07-23 Thread Hill, Ronald
Hi All, I need to bring everyone up to date on the status of the Astro stuff. I have been in contact with Tim Jenness on moonrise issues and here is what has transpired: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Hill, Ronald wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > > > > > Sure - I can't guarantee to be able to find the time since

RE: FW: Problems installing on Win32.

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> I wanted to use the timezone long names for users to indicate their current > timezone/DST but many of the major cities are missing from the list. How > does somebody from say, America/Dallas, indicate their timezone? I'm > assuming that they would select the nearest city to their current locatio

RE: FW: Problems installing on Win32.

2003-07-23 Thread Nick Porter
I wanted to use the timezone long names for users to indicate their current timezone/DST but many of the major cities are missing from the list. How does somebody from say, America/Dallas, indicate their timezone? I'm assuming that they would select the nearest city to their current location which

RE: FW: Problems installing on Win32.

2003-07-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
> For the rest of the list: I have a question about the use and implementation > of TimeZone names. Can I ask it here or is there another list where it would > be more OT. Not sure if this list is just for the development of the > package. Have you looked at the FAQ? If so and it didn't answer yo

RE: FW: Problems installing on Win32.

2003-07-23 Thread Nick Porter
Rod, Ron sent the attachment direct to my email addr and I have just forwarded it on to yours. I believe you need Perl v5.8. I installed the packages using PPM3. As I mentioned in my previous post one of the modules DateTime depends on wasn't installed automatically by PPM3 and croaked the process.