Re^2: Inscrutable test failure

Correct. When I needed to get the epoch time value of "some random sunday" for testing, Date::Manip was the first thing that came to mind.

1) My system is central US time, the test box I installed to is PHT (Phillipines), and I'm not sure whether the one it's failing on is using PHT or German time. Fun, no? But you're right - I had been assuming all operations would be in the machine's local time, regardless of what that may be. Is there a more reliable way to say "give me a time value for a day that is a Sunday/Tuesday in the current time zone"?

2) The provided UI mockup included 7 checkboxes to indicate weekday/weekend status independently for each day, implying that the sets need not be contiguous. Su,Tu,Sa = weekend / M,W,Th,F = weekday doesn't work with a begin/end range.

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Re^3: Inscrutable test failure by eric256 (Parson) on Oct 26, 2007 at 21:36 UTC
I think you want to use Date_DayOfWeek then, so something like `Date_DayOfWeek(UnixDate(ParseDate('last saturday'),'%m', '%d','%y'))` ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Inscrutable test failure by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Oct 26, 2007 at 21:49 UTC
What would be the advantage of using that rather than `(localtime ($date))[6]`? The only differences I see, based on the Date::Manip docs, seem to be whether the date is specified in epoch seconds or as m/d/y and whether Sunday is considered to be day 0 or day 7. If there is an advantage, I can definitely switch, but I personally prefer to handle dates internally as epoch times and, in this case, to use `localtime` to get the day of week directly from that value rather than converting the epoch time to m/d/y so that m/d/y can be given to `Date_DayOfWeek`. I suppose I don't want to change it without knowing why I'm changing it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Inscrutable test failure by eric256 (Parson) on Oct 26, 2007 at 21:53 UTC
Date::Manip promises to return 1-7 mapping to mon-sun. My imperssion was that it will do this regardless of local, timezones, etc. How you get the data to pass wot Date_DayOfWeek doesn't realy matter as far as I can tell though. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]