Perl and Daylight Saving Time on Windows

2007-03-05 Thread Jan Dubois
Prompted by a bug report regarding the new DST rules I had a closer look how localtime() determines Daylight Saving Time on Windows. This information is not really specific to Perl but applies to all Windows applications that use either the MSVCRT runtime library, or the Win32 API to determine DST

Re: checking for infinite loops

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Luebkert
Chris Wagner wrote: > At 04:01 PM 3/4/2007 -0800, Bill Luebkert wrote: > >>What's the exact message ? I added $^E in code below which may help. > > > Using this format to get the most recent Windows error message is good for > clarity's sake. $^E is context sensitive while this form is unambig

Re: checking for infinite loops

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Wagner
At 04:01 PM 3/4/2007 -0800, Bill Luebkert wrote: >What's the exact message ? I added $^E in code below which may help. Using this format to get the most recent Windows error message is good for clarity's sake. $^E is context sensitive while this form is unambiguous. Win32::FormatMessage(Win32::