On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:43:34PM -0000, Crispin Flowerday wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: perl > > The Time::Local::timelocal() function seems to be broken today after the > GMT -> BST daylight saving time change in the UK, e.g: > > $ date > Sun Mar 25 18:28:21 BST 2007 > $ perl -MTime::Local -e 'print scalar localtime( timelocal( localtime() ) ) > . "\n";' > Sun Mar 25 19:28:48 2007 > > Notice that going through timelocal() causes the hour to be offset by > one hour, the above operation should be a no-op and print out the > current local time (and indeed tomorrow it will work fine). > > Another example: > > use Time::Local; > @a = ( 0, 43, 5, 25, 2, 107 ); # 5:43am, 25th March 2007 > $t = timelocal( @a ) ; > print scalar localtime( $t ), "\n"; # Prints 6:43am > > @a = ( 0, 43, 5, 26, 2, 107 ); # 5:43am, 26th March 2007 > $t = timelocal( @a ) ; > print scalar localtime( $t ), "\n"; # Prints 5:43am > > > This broken behaviour seems to be isolated to timezones that changed from GMT > (e.g. Europe/London, Europe/Dublin, Europe/Isle_of_Man all show the problem, > but Europe/Paris and Europe/Berlin don't). > > I have reproduced this on both edgy and feisty. FWIW, Using Time::Local > version 1.07 works, but 1.10 doesn't (I don't have 1.08 or 1.09 > available to test). >
The most recent version of Time::Local on CPAN is 1.17. Perhaps using that will cause the problems to go away. It appears that the problem was fixed by 1.13. 1.13 2006-08-09 - Switched to using Test::More for the tests. - Fixed a bug that occurred around the DST change for Europe/London (and probably other time zones with a positive UTC offset). If given, the hour immediately after the change (2:00 AM for Europe/London), then the returned epoch was 3600 seconds too large. Reported by Roger Picton. See RT #11662. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Time::Local::timelocal() is broken over GMT/BST change https://launchpad.net/bugs/96018 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
