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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/timelocal.pl')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/timelocal.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/timelocal.pl b/lib/timelocal.pl index ad322756e3..34d14a7b9f 100644 --- a/lib/timelocal.pl +++ b/lib/timelocal.pl @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ ;# This file has been superseded by the Time::Local library module. ;# It is implemented as a call to that module for backwards compatibility ;# with code written for perl4; new code should use Time::Local directly. +;# This legacy library is deprecated and will be removed in a future +;# release of perl. ;# The current implementation shares with the original the questionable ;# behavior of defining the timelocal() and timegm() functions in the @@ -16,3 +18,7 @@ use Time::Local; *timelocal::cheat = \&Time::Local::cheat; + +warn( "The 'timelocal.pl' legacy library is deprecated and will be" + . " removed in the next major release of perl. Please use the" + . " Time::Local module instead." ); |