[freeside] Billing

[Jeff Finucane]

ivan <ivan at 420.am> wrote on Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:43:00 -0700....

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| In-Reply-To: <m1341Zu-000GNrC at cmheleu.cmh.net>; from Jeff Finucane on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:27:02AM -0400
| Subject: Re: [freeside] Billing
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| On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:27:02AM -0400, Jeff Finucane wrote:
| > 
| >    Just a quick note about the patch I sent.  Since it relies upon
| > Date::Manip it suffers from a horrid daylight savings time issue, just
| > as Date::Manip does.  In short, it's unreliable.
| 
| Can you elaborate a bit?  I've looked at Date::Manip and liked the
| available functions, though I suppose an overloaded object would be a
| nicer interface.  I had been planning on using it for quite a few things. 
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  The problem appears to be that Date::Manip is unaware of the fact that
many locations have two time zones.  When it parses times falling on the
far side of a daylight savings time shift it can return values which are
wrong by an hour.  

  I was using the UnixDate routine with a format of "%s" to return times
suited for storage in the Freeside database.  Since the entered data 
tended to include only a day, UnixDate was returning times at 11pm on
the previous day for winter dates.

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| If you're just looking to parse a user-entered date, try Date::Parse.
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  Thanks.  I was just being lazier than permitted :)

  Jeff

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