Late last evening I sent a development version of a Perl module to PAUSE. This module had had a bunch of work on it since the last release, including a change in the way timegm() and timelocal() were called.

The CPAN testers worked on it overnight, and this morning I had a brand-new shiny RT ticket in my inbox. Slaven Rezic (to give credit where it is due) had noticed and correctly diagnosed the problem. I fixed it, and tonight the CPAN testers are chew…

I have been granted co-maintainership of DateTime-Calendar-Christian, and version 0.04_01 went out October 30. Because this module is new to me, and because this is the first release in 13 years, I would like to encourage anyone with an interest in it to try out the new release and let me know of any problems.

The current release migrates the module to the DateTime locale interface, replacing the long-deprecated and recently remo…