Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's so hard? Subtracting 2 hours and 30 minutes from the official > referential time (GMT)? Or the Daylight Savings Time rules? It's not a problem of implementation. It's a problem of semantics due to the way Perl parses the language. Suppose you call: date (time, undef, -0230); What does that mean in terms of time-zone offsets? Are you subtracting 230 seconds from UTC? 230 minutes? A negative octal number? :) The syntax people are used to for specifying time zone offsets *looks* like a number but actually isn't one. You can require that it be passed as a string, but writing something like the above would be a *very* common new user mistake. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace local... John Tobey
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Russ Allbery
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Nathan Wiger
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Bart Lateur
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Russ Allbery
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Bart Lateur
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Jarkko Hietaniemi
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Nick Ing-Simmons
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Russ Allbery
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Peter Scott
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace ... Russ Allbery
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and gmtime... Matt Sergeant
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and g... John Porter
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() a... Uri Guttman
- Re: AGAINST RFC 48 (v1) Replace localtime() and g... Jonathan Scott Duff