Migrated from rt.cpan.org #98588 (status was 'stalled')

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• [email protected]

From [email protected] on 2014-09-03 15:02:22:

I noticed this when I missed one of the dependencies (List::AllUtils) that was added in v1.71, at which point all attempts to create a DateTime::TimeZone object failed with this message:

'Cannot determine local time zone'

Turns out this message is seriously misleading.

Tracing through the debugger, I came across this eval, which in v1.74 is located at line 74 of lib/DateTime/TimeZone.pm:

    my $e = do {
        local $@;
        local $SIG{__DIE__};
        eval "require $real_class";
        $@;
    };

If the class being require'ed isn't available, you should get the actual message returned, like so:

Can't locate List::AllUtils in @inc ...

But you don't. Fixing this would probably eliminate a lot of confusing bug reports against this module.