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Id: 5619
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Queue: Net-Gopher

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Severity: Important
Broken in:
  • 0.96_1
  • 0.96
  • 0.97
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Subject: information_blocks.t checks platform dependent time() values.
time() called at the exact same moment on Unix, Windows, MacOS, and MSDOS will all yeild different values since each OS has a a different understanding of the epoch. (For some its 1970, others, 1969, others, the mid-eighties, etc.) Instead, why not let the extract_..._time methods get the time() value for each timestamp using Time::Local, then use gmtime() to test their validity?