On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:40:57 +0000, Kôôl Delhite wrote:
> As far as I know Perl uses the date/time functionality
> based on the operating system settings, hence as long
> as the operating system is ready for it, Perl should
> be good. 
> I also don't think perl manages timezone data
> internally. 

True for the Perl core and the vast majority of modules.

> I would appreciate if someone could
> comment on this and let me know if there are any
> changes that we need to do to our Perl
> distributions/code to be complaint with U.S. Daylight
> Savings Time changes in 2007. 

Clearly if you are using a module whose purpose is to know timezone
offsets then it has to be up to date.  AFAICT DateTime falls into this
category.

-- 
Peter Scott
http://www.perlmedic.com/
http://www.perldebugged.com/


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