Re: Daylight savings ending not being accounted for in grab_na

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Jerry Veldhuis wrote:

>I ask that both you (Brian) and Ed look at
><http://www.wildfire.dircon.co.uk/AnnouncePerlCal.html> download and
>look at how complicated dealing with timezones is.

I haven't downloaded it yet but I will.

>From the looks of things though, I'd say that this module and UK_TZ.pm
do roughly the same thing (at least in the area of converting to/from
local time).  The difference being that XMLTV::UK_TZ has its own way
of determining the time offsets and changover dates whereas Cal::Date
requires them passed as parameters.

I know this stuff can be hairy but I already have code written, it
just needs to be generalized a bit which is not a large task.  Using a
standard module like Cal::Date might be better but OTOH it wouldn't
integrate so well with Date::Manip which we use elsewhere.

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Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>