Re: BUG REPORT: Time Drift in Event Module

2004-04-02 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:10:18PM -0500, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > I have determined that there is a definite bug in the Event module. > I have a fairly involved newsgroup reading application that I > recently converted to using the Event module. One of the timers is > supposed to report the appl

BUG REPORT: Time Drift in Event Module

2004-04-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I have determined that there is a definite bug in the Event module. I have a fairly involved newsgroup reading application that I recently converted to using the Event module. One of the timers is supposed to report the applications progress every 15 minutes on the quarter hour. my $now = time(

Event.pm 'after' attribute

2004-04-02 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
I recently converted a large newsgroup reading system to using Event.pm (from my own home-grown event driven implementation.) I found that the 'after' attribute for timers was not working the way I thought. Delving into the code showed me that the Event.pod inadequately documents the 'after' attr