Source: libtime-y2038-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ivan Kohler , gregor herrmann , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312), libjson-perl, libtest-exception-perl, libtest-warn-perl, perl, libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.360000) Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libtime-y2038-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libtime-y2038-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Time-y2038 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libtime-y2038-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Perl module with time functions working beyond 2038 On many computers, Perl's time functions will not work past the year 2038. This is a design fault in the underlying C libraries Perl uses. Time::y2038 provides replacements for those functions which will work accurately +/1 142 million years.