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Thank you for the responses. Here is more information. I do have "use Time::Local" at the top of my main script. My host is running Solaris 10 and the timezone is set for "US/Pacific". The file I am processing contains multiple(24) timestamps that are in GMT time and we have a customer who wants these times converted to local time.

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Re^2: why are timegm and timelocal returning the same epoch seconds values
by vsespb (Chaplain) on May 14, 2013 at 21:57 UTC

    1. Try extract this subroutine from you script and run it outside of your script.

    2. Is your TZ variable set?

    3. Try run with env TZ=US/Pacific

    4. Try run system tools (like 'date) which report time to make sure they recognize timezone correctly

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Re^2: why are timegm and timelocal returning the same epoch seconds values
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on May 15, 2013 at 10:55 UTC

    Update2:

    
use DateTime;
use DateTime::TimeZone;

my $dt = DateTime->new(
      year       => 2013,
      month      => 4,
      day        => 15,
      hour       => 12,
      minute     => 45,
      second     => 47,
      time_zone  => 'Europe/Berlin',
  );

my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => 'US/Pacific' );

my $offset = $tz->offset_for_datetime($dt);

print qq($offset\n);

print DateTime::TimeZone->offset_as_string( $offset ) . qq(\n);

print qq($dt->hour\n); 

$dt->set_time_zone( 'US/Pacific' );

print qq($dt->hour\n);

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    Regards, Karl

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