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

[Angus McIntyre <angus@aegypt.demon.co.uk>]

At 12:01 PM 06.01.96, Brad Cox wrote:
>Does anyone know if the time cache business in timelocal/cheat works
>properly with the mac's notion of date bases? Everything I've tried, using
>both MacPerl 4 and 5, leads to an infinite loop inside the &cheat routine.
>Here's a recent printout of variables  ...

>timelocal(00, 30, 16, 23, 0, 1996)

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.

                                A

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