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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlport.pod | 11 |
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 5414e324d4..9732bdb66c 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2186,6 +2186,8 @@ This scalar value is B<not> locale dependent (see L<perllocale>), but is instead a Perl builtin. To get somewhat similar but locale dependent date strings, see the example in L</localtime>. +See L<perlport/gmtime> for portability concerns. + =item goto LABEL =item goto EXPR @@ -2583,6 +2585,8 @@ try for example: Note that the C<%a> and C<%b>, the short forms of the day of the week and the month of the year, may not necessarily be three characters wide. +See L<perlport/localtime> for portability concerns. + =item lock THING This function places an advisory lock on a shared variable, or referenced diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 36a87050ba..8b5ea518d0 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -1773,6 +1773,10 @@ Not implemented. (S<Plan 9>) This operator is implemented via the File::Glob extension on most platforms. See L<File::Glob> for portability information. +=item gmtime + +Same portability caveats as L<localtime>. + =item ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR Not implemented. (VMS) @@ -1806,6 +1810,13 @@ Link count not updated because hard links are not quite that hard Hard links are implemented on Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 2000) under NTFS only. +=item localtime + +Because Perl currently relies on the native standard C localtime() +function, it is only safe to use times between 0 and (2**31)-1. Times +outside this range may result in unexpected behavior depending on your +operating system's implementation of localtime(). + =item lstat Not implemented. (VMS, S<RISC OS>) |