Did UPS update anything?

Anyone know if UPS updated anything on their end which could mess up the UPSXML shipping module?

One of our customers contacted us from Brazil, saying that when he proceeded to the checkout area, there was nothing but a WHITE screen. I looked at our debug log file and saw the following:

[29-Oct-2008 13:59:25] PHP Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/user/public_html/store/includes/modules/shipping/upsxml.php on line 262

So I went to that file (upsxml.php) and saw the following function which was throwing the error:

if (isset($this->servicesTimeintransit[$type])) {
$eta_array = explode("-", $this->servicesTimeintransit[$type]["date"]);
$months = array (" ", "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
$eta_arrival_date = $months[(int)$eta_array[1]]." ".$eta_array[2].", ".$eta_array[0];
// $_type .= ", ETA: ".$eta_arrival_date;
$_type .= "";
}

I don't know what could have possibly changed to cause this, but we certainly didn't do anything. So I commented that function out and now it APPEARS to be working. If you do hear any information about a UPS code change, please let us know.

I suspect the quote came back without a time component ... perhaps just an instructional/error message.
When was the last time you got a quote for the same destination address but didn't get an error?
What happens if you plug in that customer's shipping address into the UPS website rate-calculator? How do the quotes compare with other quotes in terms of data available etc?
The problem might be locale-specific.