Re: [Omaha.pm] 2007 daylight savings time change

["Daniel Linder" <dan@linder.org>]

On Tue, November 28, 2006 09:44, Jay Hannah wrote:
> From: David Jackson
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:12 AM
>> http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nt/2006/1106nt1.html?t5
>
> Wow. Looks like Perl only cares that the OS is patched?
>
> http://www.iiug.org/resources/articles/dls_2007.html
>
> Good thing we don't code under dozens of JREs (Java). Shall we drop by
> the Java Users Group and watch them recompile their JREs? -grin-
>
> I wonder if Perl6 will suffer this JRE problem? Gotta love Perl5. :)

I can only hope that the developers of P6 break that out into a separate
module (or continue to rely on the OS).

Of course I can see some people taking the option of just letting some
systems be off by 1 hour for a few extra weeks... :(  (How many times have
we seen the flashing "12:00" on VCRs...)

Dan

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