On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Rob Mueller wrote:
> The only way really to provide a fast (to initialize, and access) timezone
> DB is to either provide a DB (e.g. CDB, SDBM, etc) with the module, or have
> something in the make process that creates such a DB based on the DBM
> modules available on the user
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Max Maischein wrote:
> after some thinking about how to compare the "inconvertible" units, I
> came up with an ugly hack that will work for "most" cases - the border
> cases where it fails, are not yet detected, but I'm working on that. The
> patch passes all my ad-hoc tests,
<...>
> > Having a look at the code, I noticed that each timezone has it's own
class,
> > and also a lot of data in perl structures. I'm not really sure why the
> > timezone classes were developed this way, it seems fine for a simple
case
> > where you only need a couple of timezones, but in a case
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Max Maischein wrote:
> I saw in the CHANGES file that you added some other delta_* methods, but
> didn't find them in the documentation, so I don't know about these, and
> was too lazy to delve into the source for this :-)
These are for DateTime objects. I'm now regretting t
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Rob Mueller wrote:
> ./perlbloat.pl 'use DateTime::TimeZone; $TZ{$_} =
> DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => $_) for (DateTime::TimeZone::all_names)'
> use DateTime::TimeZone; $TZ{$_} = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => $_) for
> (DateTime::TimeZone::all_names) added 12.7M
But of c
Hi
I help develop an email website (http://www.fastmail.fm) and recently we
wanted to move over to providing proper timezone support for users (eg give
us a location, and we'll keep the time up to date, rather than having to
change for daylight savings every 6 months). As part of this, we were goi
Hello again,
this is the patch, which allows for DateTime::Duration comparisions. It
has no error checking for the border cases (yet), but the patched module
still passes all tests, so I consider that "good enough". It certainly
is good enough for my cases where I have differences that always a
This was originally to Dave directly. A second mail with a tentative
patch that somewhat "fixes" the problem discussed below follows in a
second mail (that I also sent to Dave directly and will forward
separately). Please comment but CC me, as I don't follow the list!
-max
Original Me
