Time::Local has been a part of standard Perl for at least six years. If you had to install it manually for 5.005_03, then I think you had a broken installation.

The reason for using Time::Local::timelocal is that it's a function that I know and use. I didn't know that POSIX::mktime existed until you mentioned it the other day. In this case, POSIX::mktime might make more sense, as it would mean loading one less module.

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