> Which means that when Perl adds or subtracts an hour based on the DST
> setting, we'd need to know we whether we had a CRTL version that needed
> extra adjustment. Ick. I think Richard Brodie was looking into this
> stuff, but I can't remember if he concluded anything.

It was a while back but as I recall, the problem was that the code
has a fudge factor applied for no obvious reason. It was fairly easy
to see what the code should do. What was hard was figuring out where the
fix was needed, without having any older systems to test against.

> For example, from VMS712_ACRTL-v0200:
> Incorrect timestamp returned from stat and fstat functions

That's a useful data point. I'll take another look at the code
sometime now I have some idea what the workaround is for.

Richard Brodie.

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