Re: [MacPerl] time problems

[Noah Iliinsky <noahi@quando.com>]

At 10:59 PM -0500 6/23/97, Chris Nandor wrote:

SNIP

>Simply replace
>
>        require "timelocal.pl";
>
>with
>
>        use Time::Local;
>
>
>Former produced:
>NOW TIME: 5/23/97 22:57:12
>RET TIME: 0/1/4 0:0:0
>
>Latter produced:
>NOW TIME: 5/23/97 22:57:14
>RET TIME: 5/23/97 22:57:14
>
>Time::Local exports the timelocal() method, so you don't have to change
>anything else.
>
>--
>Chris Nandor                 pudge@pobox.com                 http://pudge.net/
>%PGPKey=('B76E72AD',[1024,'08 24 09 0B CE 73 CA 10  1F F7 7F 13 81 80 B6 B6'])


Ah Hah! I suggest implementing this fix ASAP for all of you using wwwdates.pl from mac_libwww. It caused me no end of headaches and I finally gave up and ran my date sensitive stuff on macs other than my own. However, this does appear to fix everything.

Thanks, Noah

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