Re: Perl 5.42.1-RC1 is now available!

[email protected] (Karl Williamson) Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:30:03 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/23/26 13:36, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 01:16:55PM +0000, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:
>> The final v5.42.1 is expected to ship on 8 March.
> 
> Since March 8th is the "spring forward" date at least in the US, it
> might be nice to clarify in the perldelta that the strftime bug is
> "skipped" when moving from standard time to saving time and only a
> problem in the other direction.
> 
> l8rZ,

In the S hemisphere we're coming up fall back, so this bug will have 
been fixed for them.