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From:
Zefram
Date:
October 3, 2008 14:41
Subject:
Re: leap seconds in DateTime
Message ID:
20081003214124.GB32160@fysh.org
Monty, James T wrote:
>Uh-oh, I don't get the same results with DateTime 0.4304 and ActivePerl
>5.8.8 on Windows XP:

In the changelog:

|0.16    2003-08-06
|
|[ IMPROVEMENTS ]
|
|- The XS code now implements leap second-related calculations.
|  However, this is only used on platforms where we can find a usable
|  finite() or isfinite() function/macro, so it isn't used on Win32.

Looks like the XS picks up the leap second table from leaptab.txt, but
the pure Perl needs to be edited manually and now isn't being tested by
users who have XS functionality.

-zefram

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