Another missing hunk for MakeMaker from .org.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / lib / Time / Local.pm

diff --git a/lib/Time/Local.pm b/lib/Time/Local.pm
index 51553b5..c38d07c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Time/Local.pm
+++ b/lib/Time/Local.pm
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 package Time::Local;
-use 5.006;
+
 require Exporter;
 use Carp;
 use Config;
 use strict;
 use integer;
 
-our $VERSION    = '1.04';
-our @ISA       = qw( Exporter );
-our @EXPORT    = qw( timegm timelocal );
-our @EXPORT_OK = qw( timegm_nocheck timelocal_nocheck );
+use vars qw( $VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK );
+$VERSION    = '1.07';
+@ISA   = qw( Exporter );
+@EXPORT        = qw( timegm timelocal );
+@EXPORT_OK     = qw( timegm_nocheck timelocal_nocheck );
 
 my @MonthDays = (31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31);
 
@@ -169,8 +170,11 @@ Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
 
 These routines are the inverse of built-in perl functions localtime()
 and gmtime().  They accept a date as a six-element array, and return
-the corresponding time(2) value in seconds since the Epoch (Midnight,
-January 1, 1970).  This value can be positive or negative.
+the corresponding time(2) value in seconds since the system epoch
+(Midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC on Unix, for example).  This value can
+be positive or negative, though POSIX only requires support for
+positive values, so dates before the system's epoch may not work on
+all operating systems.
 
 It is worth drawing particular attention to the expected ranges for
 the values provided.  The value for the day of the month is the actual day
@@ -262,5 +266,24 @@ The whole scheme for interpreting two-digit years can be considered a bug.
 
 The proclivity to croak() is probably a bug.
 
+=head1 SUPPORT
+
+Support for this module is provided via the perl5-porters@perl.org
+email list.  See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details.
+
+Please submit bugs using the RT system at bugs.perl.org, the perlbug
+script, or as a last resort, to the perl5-porters@perl.org list.
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+This module is based on a Perl 4 library, timelocal.pl, that was
+included with Perl 4.036, and was most likely written by Tom
+Christiansen.
+
+The current version was written by Graham Barr.
+
+It is now being maintained separately from the Perl core by Dave
+Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>.
+
 =cut