Re^4: Convert GMT timestamp to EST/EDT (Time::Local + Time::Piece)

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Re^5: Convert GMT timestamp to EST/EDT (Time::Local + Time::Piece) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 28, 2015 at 20:03 UTC
Right, but the code posted anonymously converts to local time instead. That may not be correct. On second thought, he surely meant for `$ENV{TZ} = "US/Eastern";` to remain used, in which case his code works. I didn't quite understand his point (that you can make things more complicated by replacing `sprintf` with Time::Piece) when I wrote my comment. If you want to use `strftime` instead of `sprintf`, you might as well grab it directly from POSIX instead of involving (rather horrible) Time::Piece.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: Convert GMT timestamp to EST/EDT (Time::Local + Time::Piece)
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 28, 2015 at 20:03 UTC

Right, but the code posted anonymously converts to local time instead. That may not be correct.

On second thought, he surely meant for $ENV{TZ} = "US/Eastern"; to remain used, in which case his code works. I didn't quite understand his point (that you can make things more complicated by replacing sprintf with Time::Piece) when I wrote my comment. If you want to use strftime instead of sprintf, you might as well grab it directly from POSIX instead of involving (rather horrible) Time::Piece.

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