Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-17 Thread David E. Wheeler
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Its doable - I could add in the code for ht_time almost verbatim, although > I *am* using Perl's gmtime. Could you not use the same gmtime that ht_time uses? D -- David E. Wheeler Software Engineer Salon Internet ICQ: 15726394 [EM

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > You should still switch to Time::Object. Loading POSIX.pm still loads in > > the .so which contains loads of cruft for things you don't > > want/need. Whereas loading Time::Object is a lot smaller. Of course I'm > > not su

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-17 Thread David E. Wheeler
Matt Sergeant wrote: > You should still switch to Time::Object. Loading POSIX.pm still loads in > the .so which contains loads of cruft for things you don't > want/need. Whereas loading Time::Object is a lot smaller. Of course I'm > not sure how you'd fix the isdst thing with Time::Object, since

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote: > > > > I'm confused. Why are you using gmtime then? > > Because if no time is supplied, I want it to default to GMT. I'm setting > up an app in which the database will stor

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-16 Thread David E. Wheeler
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote: > > I'm confused. Why are you using gmtime then? Because if no time is supplied, I want it to default to GMT. I'm setting up an app in which the database will store date/time in GMT only, but will serve it out to users in the

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > Sadly gmtime doesn't return any component indicating the timezone. Of > > course why not print out GMT instead of %Z? > > Because it won't always be GMT. I'm confused. Why are you using gmtime then? > > Alternatively,

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-16 Thread David E. Wheeler
Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Sadly gmtime doesn't return any component indicating the timezone. Of > course why not print out GMT instead of %Z? Because it won't always be GMT. > Alternatively, why not use Time::Object? It implements strftime without > the overhead of POSIX.pm, and does it in XS to

Re: ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone tell me why these are not equivalent? Shouldn't strftime know > that the time returned from gmtime() is GMT? I'm trying to create a > library that'll use ht_time when $ENV{MOD_PERL} is true, ans strftime > otherwise. But they

ht_time vs. strftime

2000-10-16 Thread David E. Wheeler
Hi All, Can anyone tell me why these are not equivalent? Shouldn't strftime know that the time returned from gmtime() is GMT? I'm trying to create a library that'll use ht_time when $ENV{MOD_PERL} is true, ans strftime otherwise. But they need to be consistent! use Apache::Util 'ht_time'; my