Zefram wrote:
>Jim Monty wrote:
>>Uh-oh, I don't get the same results with DateTime 0.4304 and
ActivePerl
>>5.8.8 on Windows XP:
>
>In the changelog:
>
>|0.162003-08-06
>|
>|[ IMPROVEMENTS ]
>|
>|- The XS code now implements leap second-related calculations.
>| However, this is only used on pl
Zefram wrote:
>Jim Monty wrote:
>>Please explain this. I've always thought DateTime *does* handle leap
>>seconds correctly.
>
>DateTime `knows', falsely, that there will be no more leap seconds
after
>the last one that it knows of. You can see this, for example, by
asking
>what is the UTC time N s
Zefram wrote:
>Kristian Flint wrote:
>>definitely a fixed number of seconds in a day
>
>Leap seconds. DateTime doesn't really do them correctly -- actually its
>time scale is a bit schizophrenic at the sub-second level -- but it
does
>represent leap seconds that it knows about. So some days, about
On Tue, 14 Jul 2008, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> On Jul 12, 2008, at 07:47, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>>
>>> DateTime.pm
>>>
>>> 0.4303 2008-07-12
>>>
>>> - There is a new leap second coming at the end of 2008.
>>
>> FYI, I got locale failures when I tried to ins
There's a good article about computerized timekeeping in the current
issue of Government Computer News:
http://www.gcn.com/print/27_15/46509-1.html
Who's got the time?
As computer systems become increasingly precise, a conflict emerges
between human and machine measurements
By
I searched http://cincypg.org for "Tranquility" and got
http://cincypg.org/node/33, which includes a link to
http://cincypg.org/webfm_send/2. Presumably, these are the public URLs
of the resources Troy was pointing us at.
--
Jim Monty
***
Zefram wrote:
> Aha, I have discovered an error in the Changes file.
Uh, I think *I* did. :-) This is why I posted to the newsgroup: the
Changes file seemed inaccurate.
I agree with you: DT::TZ 0.37 (2005-08-22) is based on 2005l, not 2005i,
and, as the Changes file states, "include[s] some major
Zefram wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> > What was the first version of the
> > Olson tz database to incorporate the legislated 2007 North American
> > Daylight Saving Time changes?
>
> 2005l.
>
> > Is it correct to say that DateTime has
> > been
