Re: [Xmltv-devel] RE: Survey - Perl on windows

[Sullivan N. B. <sb...@ci...>]

> >Neither of these behaviors can be obtained working simply with a
> >numerical offset.
> 
> Agreed.  They cannot be done with a pair of offsets either, since you
> need the dates of past and future timezone changes (and these are not
> always fixed!).  In fact, unless you want to type in the history of
> all timezone changes for every country since 1752 (or 1582) you'll
> have to accept that Date::Manip will sometimes get the timezone wrong.
> 
> But anyway, doesn't the current Date::Manip not know about seasonal
> timezone changes?  So gmtime() - localtime() would be good enough for
> what is currently supported.

Unfortunately, current Date::Manip doesn't handle seasonal changes.
I'm working hard to get 6.00 done which will handle it correctly.


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