Issue with Olson 2006b database?

[autarch]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org #17832 (status was 'stalled')

Requestors:

• greg.s.skyles@intel.com

From on 2006-02-23 16:21:51:

I used the parse_olson script (from DateTime-TimeZone-0.36) against the latest Olson DB files (2006b); in lib/DateTime/TimeZone/Asia/Jerusalem.pm, the last span produced came out as:

    [
64272092400,
1.#INF,
64272085200,
1.#INF,
7200,
0,
'IT'
    ]

By comparison to the previous file, I'm guessing it should have been:

    [
64272092400,
DateTime::TimeZone::INFINITY,
64272085200,
DateTime::TimeZone::INFINITY,
7200,
0,
'IT'
    ]

I found DateTime-TimeZone-0.42, and it's parse_olson script did the same thing.

Is this a problem with the Olson file, or does it point to something not set up correctly in my environment?

perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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[autarch]

From autarch@urth.org (@autarch) on 2006-02-23 16:24:42:

Actually, it's probably a Win32 issue. On some platforms Perl's handling of infinity seems kind of broken.

-dave

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[autarch]

From greg.s.skyles@intel.com on 2006-02-24 11:37:33:

Dave:

Thanks. A little post-processing with

sed 's/-1.#INF/DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY/g; s/1.#INF/DateTime::TimeZone::INFINITY/g'

seems to have fixed things.

-Greg

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[autarch]

From drolsky@cpan.org (@autarch) on 2014-08-30 20:29:44:

On Fri Feb 24 06:37:33 2006, greg.s.skyles@intel.com wrote:

Dave:

Thanks. A little post-processing with

sed 's/-1.#INF/DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY/g; s/1.#INF/DateTime::TimeZone::INFINITY/g'

seems to have fixed things.

If you'd be willing to submit a patch that'd be great.

[autarch]

From drolsky@cpan.org (@autarch) on 2014-08-30 20:30:08:

On Sat Aug 30 16:29:44 2014, DROLSKY wrote:

On Fri Feb 24 06:37:33 2006, greg.s.skyles@intel.com wrote:

Dave:

Thanks. A little post-processing with

sed 's/-1.#INF/DateTime::TimeZone::NEG_INFINITY/g; s/1.#INF/DateTime::TimeZone::INFINITY/g'

seems to have fixed things.

If you'd be willing to submit a patch that'd be great.

I should note that the patch needs to be against the code that generates the zone files, not against the generated files themselves.