[LON-CAPA-dev] retrofix of unbackwards what?

[Scott Harrison]

So, since the epoch is timezone independent (based on UTC),
a secondary improvement of this is indeed a uniform
treatment of multiple timezones.

Looking through "cvs log lonpublisher.pm", this confusion might
be avoided in the future by having a dtd for the .meta files.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:22:14AM -0500, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
> And even that scheme, which had suddenly popped up, was not consistently
> implemented everywhere, see bug #839 (you were cc'd).
> 
> Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> 
> > Hi Soctt,
> >
> > > The description of this subroutine is not clear.
> > > I am guessing that this all has to do with handling
> > > daylight savings time as well as different time zones
> > > (since previous versions of searchcat.pl assumed
> > >  EDT or some common time zone for all machines).
> > >
> > > Is this interpretation correct?
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > What happended was we expect sconds since the epoch in metadata files
> >
> > What was being inserted was 10-03-02 10:12:13 (for example)
> >
> > This converts that latter to the former.
> >
> > >
> > > sub unsqltime {
> > >     my $timestamp=shift;
> > >     if ($timestamp=~/^(\d+)\-(\d+)\-(\d+)\s+(\d+)\:(\d+)\:(\d+)$/) {
> > >        $timestamp=&maketime(
> > >          'year'=>$1,'month'=>$2,'day'=>$3,
> > >            'hours'=>$4,'minutes'=>$5,'seconds'=>$6);
> > >     }
> > >     return $timestamp;
> > > }
> > >
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