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Id: 59405
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: DateTime-TimeZone
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: bb [...] merrony.com
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.19
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Thu Jul 15 06:40:45 2010 https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawn_GbnfuZyBWxgnPDNG05hAeqnDh_agDwA - Ticket created
Subject: Undocumented _rules attribute
(Affects all OS and Perl versions, I don't know which version of the module added the feature). The _rules attribute of an DateTime::TimeZone object returns an array of DateTime::TimeZone::OlsonDB::Rule objects. These encode the start and end of DST observances. my $o = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => 'Europe/Vienna')->_rules->[1]; say sprintf "%s summertime ends at %s on %s in %s each year", $o->name, $o->at, $o->on, $o->month; I'd like to request that this is publicly documented, so that it can be used reliably. Many thanks.
  Fri Jul 16 12:54:55 2010 autarch [...] urth.org - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #59405] Undocumented _rules attribute
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:54:45 -0500 (CDT)
To: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawn_GbnfuZyBWxgnPDNG05hAeqnDh_agDwA via RT" <bug-DateTime-TimeZone [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Dave Rolsky <autarch [...] urth.org>
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawn_GbnfuZyBWxgnPDNG05hAeqnDh_agDwA via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> The _rules attribute of an DateTime::TimeZone object returns an array > of DateTime::TimeZone::OlsonDB::Rule objects. These encode the start > and end of DST observances. > > my $o = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => 'Europe/Vienna')->_rules->[1]; > say sprintf "%s summertime ends at %s on %s in %s each year", $o->name, > $o->at, $o->on, $o->month; > > I'd like to request that this is publicly documented, so that it can be > used reliably.
In order to make it public, it'd have to be more than an array ref. For one thing, returning the actual array ref used by the zone is quite dangerous, since an accidental change to the array ref would break the zone object! I'd suggest you discuss this on the datetime@perl.org list ,and maybe explain exactly what you're interested in doing with this data. -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/
  Fri Jul 16 12:54:55 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jul 29 11:22:47 2010 https://me.yahoo.com/a/tu1a2voopplR2cRCbknaVMNyCItT3TbgQBpE#f2c7a - Correspondence added
On Fri Jul 16 12:54:55 2010, autarch@urth.org wrote: Show quoted text
> ... > > I'd suggest you discuss this on the datetime@perl.org list ,and maybe > explain exactly what you're interested in doing with this data. > > > -dave
Hi, I've now posted a query around this on the list: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.datetime/2010/07/msg7534.html Kind regards, Elliot
  Thu Aug 09 09:53:16 2012 DROLSKY [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'