Bug #61911 for Date-Manip: UnixDate Error from 2010090502:00:00 to 2010090502:59:59

Tue Oct 05 16:37:05 2010 amish [...] 3g.co.za - Ticket created

Subject:	UnixDate Error from 2010090502:00:00 to 2010090502:59:59
Date:	Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:36:51 +0200
To:	bug-Date-Manip [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Amish Chana <amish [...] 3g.co.za>

Dear Sullivan, If I use the UnixDate function as follows: $result = UnixDate($datetime,"%w") If $datetime is equal to a value from 2010090502:00:00 to 2010090502:59:59 then I get the following error: ---------------- WARNING: [printf] Object must contain a valid date Use of uninitialized value $ret[0] in join or string at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/Manip.pm line 197, <STDIN> line 1. ---------------- The function works fine for other values of $datetime variable but returns an error for the above range. The error is present in version 6.11 and 6.12 with perl version 5.10.1. Best Regards, Amish

Tue Oct 05 20:05:14 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Tue Oct 05 16:37:05 2010, amish@3g.co.za wrote: Show quoted text

> Dear Sullivan, > > If I use the UnixDate function as follows: $result = > UnixDate($datetime,"%w") > > If $datetime is equal to a value from 2010090502:00:00 to > 2010090502:59:59 then I get the following error: > ---------------- > WARNING: [printf] Object must contain a valid date > Use of uninitialized value $ret[0] in join or string at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/Manip.pm line 197, <STDIN> line 1. > ---------------- > > The function works fine for other values of $datetime variable but > returns an error for the above range. > The error is present in version 6.11 and 6.12 with perl version 5.10.1.

What timezone are you in? This looks like a daylight saving time issue. If you tell me what timezone you're in, I'll check it out.

Tue Oct 05 20:05:15 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Oct 06 03:48:06 2010 amish [...] 3g.co.za - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #61911] UnixDate Error from 2010090502:00:00 to 2010090502:59:59
Date:	Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:47:54 +0200
To:	bug-Date-Manip [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Amish Chana <amish [...] 3g.co.za>

On 10/06/2010 02:05 AM, Sullivan Beck via RT wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61911> > > On Tue Oct 05 16:37:05 2010, amish@3g.co.za wrote: >

>> Dear Sullivan, >> >> If I use the UnixDate function as follows: $result = >> UnixDate($datetime,"%w") >> >> If $datetime is equal to a value from 2010090502:00:00 to >> 2010090502:59:59 then I get the following error: >> ---------------- >> WARNING: [printf] Object must contain a valid date >> Use of uninitialized value $ret[0] in join or string at >> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/Date/Manip.pm line 197,<STDIN> line 1. >> ---------------- >> >> The function works fine for other values of $datetime variable but >> returns an error for the above range. >> The error is present in version 6.11 and 6.12 with perl version 5.10.1. >>

> What timezone are you in? This looks like a daylight saving time issue. > If you tell me what timezone you're in, I'll check it out. > >

I'm using SAST - South African Standard Time, which is GMT+2. The system timezone is "Africa/Johannesburg". We don't use daylight saving.

Thu Oct 07 15:51:29 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This is fixed and will be in the next Date::Manip release. The timezone abbreviations were not being tested in the correct order since there was a problem with how the order was determined and stored in the Zones.pm module. This has now been corrected.

Thu Oct 07 15:51:31 2010 sbeck [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'