I conclude that you're right that this is the result of the disparate CRTs.

In particular, the fact that both CRTs probably have seperate copies of the environment which defeats T::P's attempts to maintain Perl's copy, the CRT copy and the process' copy in a coherent state

If I install T::P 1.16 via PPM into my AS-binary dist, it works fine. Equally, if I build it using a Perl built from AS sources and VC++ v9, it passes all the tests. Despite that the home-built ASPerl also links to both msvcrt.dll & msvcr90.dll!?

I also think it could be 'fixed'.

If the fixups and work arounds to the tz* functions in T::P, were factored back into the win32 perl core, and exported from perl510.dll--and T::P imported them from there--the problem would disappear. (I think :)

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In reply to Re^8: Testing Time::Piece on Windows/VC by BrowserUk
in thread Testing Time::Piece on Windows/VC by Corion

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