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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:01:21PM -0800, Peter Prymmer wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Peter Prymmer wrote:
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> > Well since it seems that Jarkko tossed it into perl@9073 and since I
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> By the way I could not help but notice that the perl@9073.tgz file from:
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> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/
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> seemed to have a timestamp of:
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> perl@9073.tgz 6722 Kb Tue Mar 7 16:40:00 2000
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> While I seem to recall that Finland is east of GMT I did not realize that
> it was so far east that it thought that March 7 occurred on a Tuesday.
You missed the year: Finland is so much to the east that it's
a year behind(!) :-) and a year ago March 7 was a Tuesday...
Hmmm, something wrong with ftp.funet.fi:s clock? I hope not
since it's the CPAN master site...<checking> Nope, it's okay.
ftp$ date
Thu Mar 8 00:09:55 EET 2001
ftp$ ls -l /pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@90*
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhi cpan 6871839 Mar 4 21:43 /pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@9022.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhi cpan 6883950 Mar 7 18:40 /pub/languages/perl/snap/perl@9073.tgz
ftp$
> Forunately it also had the recent 9022 kit with a timestamp of:
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> perl@9022.tgz 6710 Kb Sun Mar 4 19:43:00 2001
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> which seemed more in keeping with the calendars we keep here in western
> North America (?)
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> Peter Prymmer
>
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