Re: issue with Dec 9 datetime in Caracas

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Éric Cholet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I ran into the following problem with a specific datetime, and the Caracas 
> time zone:
>
> my $d = DateTime->new(year => 2007, month => 12, day => 9, hour => 11, minute 
> => 8, time_zone => 'UTC');
> print "$d\n";
> $d->set(locale => 'fr');
> print "$d\n";
> $d->set_time_zone('America/Caracas');
> print "$d\n";
> $d->set(locale => 'fr');
> print "$d\n";
>
> the above script outputs:
>
> 2007-12-09T11:08:00
> 2007-12-09T11:08:00
> 2007-12-09T06:38:00
> Invalid local time for date in time zone: America/Caracas

This is a rather huge bug in the time zone generation code. I hope to have 
a fix out this weekend at the latest. I'm really surprised it took this 
long to be noticed.


-dave

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