Re: using perl to print yesterday's date, but with formatting options ?

• From: Purl Gurl <purlgurl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:47:55 -0800

usenet wrote:

Purl Gurl wrote:

All-in-all, you have yet to receive any intelligent responses
regarding Daylight Savings Time.

On Daylight Savings Time, you will never write code which
will work correctly.

I beg to differ on both points. I posted this reply:
http://tinyurl.com/8uwwb. It works for daylight savings time, and leap

I don't know about that. from the docs:

KNOWN BUGS

Daylight Savings Times

Another reason to use DateTime. DateTime will handle
DST changes, leap seconds, leap years, other calender systems
and much more :-)

So, you pack up your machine and move to Arizona.
Your DateTime is now broken.

It is impossible to produce any software which will handle
Daylight Savings Time with perfection. Many software will
do an ok job, no major problems while a user is aware.

You boys need to think in terms of both longitudal regions
and geopolitical regions, related to machines "talking"
to each other.

Another forgotton notion is "when" these Daylight Savings
Time changes take effect. Some change clocks a day ahead,
some the next day, and some, like myself, never change
the clocks; Windows changes its clocks, but not mine.

Litte known notion is our Congress is considering a bill
to change the effective dates of Daylight Saving Time under
a Bush idiocy guise this will cut energy costs. Whoopie.

George Bush <-> Forrest Gump

You can get it right most of the time, but not all the time.

So tell me, what happens when a machine resides in Jerusalem?

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/08/ap/ap_3080805.asp?p=1

Purl Gurl

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