Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone

["Doug McNutt" <dmcnutt@macnauchtan.com>]

So what I'm hearing is that:
   1) timezone data (at least, delta from GMT) is in there
   2) at present, I can't get at it :-(
   3) If someone would write the XS code to get at it, I could use that
      in my MacPerl scripts

What we have here is a prime example of what is really needed in MacPerl - a
SIMPLE way to create a SIMPLE CODE module to accomplish a SIMPLE task.
There's no reason why it should be so difficult to write a little C or
assembly code and have it called by Perl.

Load the module by name or fail, push argument handles on the stack, JSR to
the module, assign the result from a handle placed on the stack by the
module, release the memory, make the module purgeable. Obeys the KISS
principle.

Even our friends at Micro$oft have an interface to CODE modules from Excel.
Well at least they used to before they screwed up both WORD and Excel.

I know I could recompile all of Perl from source. I donwanna.


-->From the USA, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it.


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