[egenix-users] Bug in DateTime parsing

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Paul Rensing wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am not subscribed to the list, so please reply directly.
> 
> I did not see a bug reporting address on the Web site, so I thought I
> would start here.
> 
> There is a bug in the latest version of DateTime when parsing times
> containing "AM" or "PM". Specifically, if the time is "12:??AM" or
> "12:??PM", the resulting time is off by 12 hours (actually, it fails on
> "12:??PM").
> 
> The problem is that "12:00AM" means "0:00" (in a 24-hour clock) and
> "12:00PM" means "12:00". The code just ignores "AM" and add 12 to the
> hour when it sees "PM". This not correct when the hour is "12".

This bug will be fixed in the upcoming egenix-mx-base release 2.1.0
(sometime in March).

Thanks,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com

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