Hi Bill,
You are right that the problem I noticed with timelocal() around 11/6/1910
is only present on Windows.
On my Linux host, timelocal() remains consistent with DateTime module around
11/6/1910.
But your prediction for Apr 2 in 1906 does not pan out on Windows.
G:\>perl David.pl 1906 04 01
> I'm pretty sure timelocal() is wrong here, though I'm not sure why. There
> was no DST transition in that zone in 1910. In fact, there wasn't really a
> time zone until 1918. The pre-1918 zone file in the Olson database is just
> using local solar time, but it's not very meaningful. If you
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Lu Feng wrote:
I noticed that the UNIX time from timelocal() started to differ from that you
get from using DateTime module, for dates earlier than 11/6/1910.
For the America/New_York local timezone, timelocal() thinks there was a DST
switch on 11/6/1910, while DateTime
