To be clear...

This is the only perl module that uses the Olson Time Zone database to accurately represent time zones. Not only for today but back over 30 years.

I've seen you make this point several times in the chatterbox, including claiming that this was required for accurately dealing with date-times represented as epoch-seconds.

So, I'll repeat here that timezone data is irrelevent when dealing only with epoch seconds (no, you didn't claim otherwise here). And that every Unix system for decades has used the Olsen timezone database for their date conversion routines, so Perl on those platforms already uses it, so there is little point in having a module seperately deal with that on those platforms.

Perhaps you meant to say that it is the only module that you know of that uses such on MS Windows (since you bring up MS Windows next). But that isn't what you said.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Data: Dates, a DateTime replacement to perlfaq4 (TZ nit) by tye
in thread Data: Dates, a DateTime replacement to perlfaq4 by BigLug

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