Re: [MacPerl] Bug in MacPERL 5.1.0

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

I forgot to Cc: this to the list.

"Frank J. Faubert, Jr." <frank@sane.com> writes
>    I believe that I have found a bug in MacPERL 5.1.0.  The following code
>snippet works fine under 5.0.7, but returns -1's in 5.1.0.
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>require 'timelocal.pl';
>
>$Time = time;
>$LocalTime = timelocal( localtime( $Time ) ); 
>$GMTime = timegm( gmtime( $Time ) );

This is one of the unpleasant integer bugs. I did a workaround, but only
in one copy of the code. Simply replacing 

require 'timelocal.pl'; 

with

use Time::Local;

should work.

Matthias

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