I'm trying to use perl to format weather data from a postgres database. The trouble is that we store the timezone information in the normal TZ environment variable format (like EST5EDT for eastern US). In C, if I wanted to get the local time at a particular place, I would do a putenv call followed by a tzset call (this is on UNIX btw) and then magically when I call localtime or mktime, I get the effect I desire. I've done some searching, but I've found no way to do something similar in Perl.

I've seen some references in my travels to the $ENV variable. I assume that I can use that to set the timezone given the strings from the database. If I do that, will localtime cooperate and behave like it would in C? Is there another way to do this?

TIA
Ben

In reply to Timezones in Perl by ArthurDent

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