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Postings from May 2003
http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=8253 Ok. With the help of Sean Burke I've managed to come up with some sort of reasonable text for perlport as the requestor ... requested. The patch is below, but this is another one of those odd areas for me. I can't decide if we should document that it's broken, or if it should be fixed. You decide. :-) Having said that, I would like to admit that I can't begin to fathom the problem here. Also, I'm not sure if my assumption on drive usage is correct or if it should really say 'and you are running perl from any drive but C:'. Please advise. Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with C You shoot yourself in the foot. --- perl-current.orig/pod/perlport.pod Thu Apr 10 01:48:00 2003 +++ perl-current/pod/perlport.pod Fri May 9 06:30:04 2003 @@ -600,6 +600,11 @@ some large number. C<$offset> can then be added to a Unix time value to get what should be the proper value on any system. +On Windows, if you pass a negative value to C<gmtime> or C<localtime> +and you are running perl from a drive other than the one it was +installed on, these functions will return C<undef> in scalar context +and an empty list in list context. + =head2 Character sets and character encoding Assume very little about character sets.Thread Next