You mean write yet another Date/Time module that does more or less the same as the others. I'd be hung, drawn and quartered :)

I didn't want to write another module, simply because DateTime and Date::ICal are both well supported modules. If someone using my module wants reliable handling of dates then they are advised to install a reliable date handling module. Time::Local is the fallback simply because its in the Core.

Since yesterday I'm thinking along the same lines as Time::Local tests. If the user is happy with the boundaries set by Time::Local and localtime, then I don't really need tests that look beyond that. If they want to go beyond those boundaries then they should really install a more reliable date handling module.

I just found it infuriating having done all these tests and got it working on Linux, when I test it on Windows all these messages suddenly appeared. Such is life.

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In reply to Re: Re: Windows, Time::Local and dates before the epoch by barbie
in thread Windows, Time::Local and dates before the epoch by barbie

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