timelocal(localtime(0)) != 0

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#1618 (status was 'resolved')

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From kki@wakusei.ne.jp

Hello, I'm Keiki SATOH in Japan.
I had been using timelocal(), and I have a problem.

This is sample.

$ perl -e 'use Time​::Local; print timelocal(localtime(0)) . "\n";'
-3600

This is my patch.

Inline Patch

--- Local.pm.orig       Wed Aug  4 03:09:28 1999
+++ Local.pm    Fri Oct 15 00:41:54 1999
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     if ($t < $DAY and ($lt[5] >= 70 or $gt[5] >= 70 )) {
       # Wrap error, too early a date
       # Try a safer date
-      $tt = $DAY;
+      $tt += $DAY;
       @lt = localtime($tt);
       @gt = gmtime($tt);
     }

I hope you can understand my "very" funny English. :-)

------------------------
Keiki SATOH (KKI)
E-Mail​:kki@​wakusei.ne.jp

Perl Info

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by root at Wed Aug  4 02:31:51 JST 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.0.34, archname=i586-linux
    uname='linux sv 2.0.34 #3 thu sep 17 19:05:30 jst 1998 i586 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /home/kki/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux
    /home/kki/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /home/kki/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux
    /home/kki/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/kki
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/andrew/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/games:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash