Re: definition of correctness

[email protected] (Rick Measham)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
bharanee rathna wrote:
> although the latter seems consistent with what POSIX::mktime does. The
> question I have is about the correctness of DST calculations and
> whether POSIX::mktime is busted.

I'm not sure what you're thinking might be busted here. If we're doing 
the same as POSIX::mktime does, then it's doing it right.

When you add a day, you expect the wallclock to stay the same. "Tune in 
the same time tomorrow".

When you add 24 hours, you expect 24 *HOURS* to elapse -- no matter how 
many hours there are in a day.

Cheers!
Rick Measham
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