any way to download this?

Jon Davies jon at hedgerows.org.uk
Thu Mar 24 19:35:35 EDT 2011


>>> On 24 March 2011 16:57, Nick Ludlam <nick at recoil.org> wrote:
>>>> Dinky, is there a more long term fix you can think of for this? I'm sure this isn't the only time that dates will rear their heads, and it would be great to have a solution for the issue.
>>>
>> On 24 Mar 2011, at 17:38, Jon Davies wrote:
>>> On what types of system do the dates fail?  I can't reproduce a date
>>> problem with perl 5.10.1 on ubuntu 10.04 or windows xp.
>>
On 24 March 2011 20:50, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this just confirms my suspicion that whether or not get_iplayer bombs will depend on a combination of OS architecture, Perl version, Perl configuration, and Perl module versions.  There's no point in trying to wrangle with the permutations

I tend to agree.  It looks like as perl moves on it's less prone to
the 2038 problem, and apart from this one unusual case it's likely
that perl and the operating systems will have resolved this for us
all.  So the long term fix is do nothing.

Jon



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