Rules

2005-06-18 Thread Rui Fernandes
To whom might interest: New York rule: my $rules = [ bless( { 'at' => '2:00', 'from' => '1987', 'in' => 'Apr', 'letter' => 'D', 'name' => 'US', 'offset_from_std' => 3600, 'on' => 'Sun>=1', 'save' => '1:00', 'to' => 'max', 'type' => undef }, 'DateTime::T

Re: Understanding rules? Maybe not...

2005-06-18 Thread Rui Fernandes
, to be honest Dave, respecting the time that the programmers and users of this list have, and their timing, you could have spent your time explaining to me the calculations of one rule instead of sending me elsewhere. Regards, Rui Fernandes

Re: Understanding rules? Maybe not...

2005-06-18 Thread Rui Fernandes
(+ 1 hour).. This part I don't get it, sorry. Regards, Rui Fernandes Rui Fernandes - Original Message - From: "Rick Measham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rui Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:16 AM Subject: Re: Under

Not right - Understanding rules? Maybe not...

2005-06-18 Thread Rui Fernandes
> > Thanks for replying. So the rule is inverted - I mean, I was looking for a > > rule from March to October but it actually is from October of one year to > > March of the next, right? Wrong...after 40 years and I still suprise myself with the idiotic things I'm able to say... Just explain me -

Fw: Understanding rules? Maybe not...

2005-06-18 Thread Rui Fernandes
gal > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Rick Measham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Rui Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:16 AM > Subject: Re: Understanding rules? Maybe not... > > >

Understanding rules? Maybe not...

2005-06-18 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi, I'm having some trouble understanding a few parameters in the TZ database - everybody knows that. I'm a developer, in the field of astronomy and celestial mechanics. But I encountered a problem relative to the relation between Local and UTC time in one of my applications. So, I picked up T

Some kind of relation?

2005-06-17 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi everyone, Is there any connection between the rules and the last observance in the cities's files? The rules, I understand. Can I use them for future values Dave? Kind regards, Rui Miguel Fernandes Porto - Portugal

Re: Well, well...NOT...

2005-06-16 Thread Rui Fernandes
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Ok, this is just rude. Just cause you don't get an immediate answer does > not mean the list is dead. We all have lots of other non-datetime related > stuff going on. I just moved into a new house, for example. You need to > be patient and thankful, n

Well, well...

2005-06-16 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi again, Forgive my honesty, but this mail list looks kind of dead...Well, regarding my previous doubts, only the fourth remains - the others I already figure them out. But - without being rushed - I think there are major problems here. I sent an email yestarday telling about some incongruences i

Fw: Request for clarification

2005-06-16 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi, This is a copy of the e-mail I've sent to David Rolsky - maybe there's someone that might explain me my doubts. Cheers, Rui Fernandes *** Dear David Rolsky I tryed to implement your DateTime::TimeZone but I'm getting too much errors - missing library files, most

Kind of mess....be cool...

2005-06-15 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi again, I'm trying to understand some things related to TZ database. One big question: in the modules of the cities, what does it mean [ DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY, 59421774992, DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY, 59421772800, -2192, 0, 'LMT' ] or [ 60446127600, 60457881600, 604461312

Mixed Info, perhaps?

2005-06-15 Thread Rui Fernandes
Hi, I made some calculations ( conversions between GMT and Europe/Lisbon ) in the websites referred at http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm, like "The World Clock" or "Time Zone Converter . I looked for some difficult examples. But here they are: In the 25th September 1977, in Europe/Lisbon, th

Houston, I have a problem

2005-06-15 Thread Rui Fernandes
pm line 42 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at DateTime/DateTime.pm line 42. How do I solve this one? Regards, Rui Fernandes

A little assistance needed

2005-06-14 Thread Rui Fernandes
Dear friends, I'm very impressed with the work that David Rolsky had with TimeDate::TimeZone module. But I've got a problem: as usually, my host does not want to install the modules in the server - so I can't access them this way. What simple transformations could I do to have a perl script to