Okay, I think this is sinking in; gmtime and localtime are exported to your current module in such a manner that they can be called directly, that is, not on any package name or reference. Doesn't this mean then that even if you override _mktime you still have to override the exported functions so that they'll call your version of _mktime rather than the version in the package in which they were originally defined? I think you'd have to actually redefine it rather than override it, as in: 

no warnings 'redefine';
package Time::Piece;
sub _mktime { ... }

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or 
sub Time::Piece::_mktime { ... }

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You know, the more I think about this, the more I think Time::Piece was written this way because it's not supposed to be subclassed ; ) Wouldn't using it as a mix-in for your modules give you all the flexibility you need? For what reason does the functionality you're looking for require an IS-A relationship to Time::Piece?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Tracking Inheritance Directly due to Hybrid Methods by djantzen
in thread Tracking Inheritance Directly due to Hybrid Methods by mojotoad

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