Bug#560393: bugs tracked down

Chris Butler chrisb at debian.org
Sat Mar 27 12:30:33 UTC 2010


package libdate-manip-perl
retitle 560393 Date::Manip fails to handle timezones specified as offsets correctly
forwarded 560393 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=54779
thanks

I have finally managed to track down the Date::Manip bug that is causing the
breakage of xmltv-util.

The new version of Date::Manip does not deal with timezones correctly if
they are specified as offsets from GMT. It seems that using a timezone of
"+0000" in the Date_Init call, or in one of the timezone arguments to
Date_ConvTZ, actually tells Date::Manip to use the Europe/London timezone.
It is therefore affected by DST, and translates to +0100 during the DST
period.

The attached script demonstrates the problems.

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