Let me offer a bit of history on this problem.
In 1.13-3, A patch was added which fixed quoting for uk.finance.yahoo.com.
There are two lines of interest in Base.pm which in 1.13-2 must have
looked like this.
@FIELDS = qw/symbol name last date time net p_change volume bid ask
close open day_range year_range eps pe div_date div div_yield
cap ex_div avg_vol currency/;
@FIELD_ENCODING = qw/s n l1 d1 t1 c1 p2 v b a p o m w e r r1 d y j1 q a2
c4/;
The patch for 1.13-3 changes the order of date and time in @FIELDS and
leaves @FIELD_ENCODING alone. One would have thought that this
misalignment would not work at all, but in fact it actually made things
work for uk.finance.yahoo.com.
It did however break things for finance.yahoo.com, and that is when I
got involved with issue 490395.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490395
My first thought was to change @FIELDS back to the way it was, and that
did indeed fix my problem with finance, but broke uk again. After a
little digging I figured out what was going on. I linked to that
discussion in the issue, but unfortunately the linked information went
private, so I can't see it any more.
Essentially one of d1 or t1 is actually ignored on uk, and the other
stands for time and date in that order. That's why 1.13-3 worked on uk.
For finance however, d1 means date and t1 means time.
In the patch that was used to make 1.13-4, I switch the order in
@FIELD_ENCODING to be t1 d1 to match the new order in @FIELDS. This
fixed finance because now the fields and encodings matched. And it
still worked on uk because "t1 d1" together still means "time date".
Now the new upstream release has arrived, 1.15-1. This again breaks
finance.yahoo.com for me. This again puts date before time in @FIELDS
but leave my patch which puts t1 d1 into @FIELD_ENCODING.
So to fix things for me, I have applied the following patch.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Base.pm.20090321 2009-03-21 12:33:19.000000000 -0500
+++ Base.pm 2009-03-21 12:33:46.000000000 -0500
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
# in the URL. These are recorded below, along with their corresponding
# field names.
-...@fields = qw/symbol name last date time net p_change volume bid ask
+...@fields = qw/symbol name last time date net p_change volume bid ask
close open day_range year_range eps pe div_date div div_yield
cap ex_div avg_vol currency/;
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At the moment, I can't remember how to test this, but I thought it would
be helpful to give some perspective about how we got here.
-John Marter
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