Re: [MacPerl]: timelocal infinite loops???

[bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox)]

At 20:38 96/01/06, Angus McIntyre wrote:

>Try subtracting '1900' from the year before passing it to 'timelocal'; if
>you inspect the output from 'localtime', you'll notice that it gives '96'
>as the year.
>
>Incidentally, I think there *is* something strange with 'timelocal' under
>MacPerl 5. It used to work fine under MacPerl 4, but now something like:
>
>        &timelocal(localtime(time))
>
>simply returns '-1', suggesting that either all is not well or I'm
>overlooking something obvious again.

Been there, done that. Subtracting 1900 makes it return -1 every time. And
I've experienced this under both MacPerl 4 and 5. In fact I upgraded to
Perl 5 largely because I thought this might fix it.

Puzzling, huh? Tim Endres said this stuff worked flawlessly but I'm not so
sure. And I simply *have* to get date conversions working fast!

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