Re: to_date conversion semantics?

On 20/09/10 20:18, Colin 't Hart wrote:
> The 32nd of Undecember (!) turning into the 1st of February of the
> next year... instead of throwing an exception like I expect.

What Tom said, but it's presumably using mktime(...) somewhere internally.

perl -MPOSIX  -e 'print scalar gmtime(mktime(0,0,0,32,13-1,73)),"\n"'
Fri Feb  1 00:00:00 1974

http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html#mktime
http://linux.die.net/man/3/mktime

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