Sorry I wasn't clear. $^T is along the lines of what I'm looking for, but I also already thought of this. What I want is to make all time calls transparently return times relative to some known starting point rather than the current time; i.e., make it look like the script is running in the past or future. If $^T were also used as some sort of relative base time, that seems like it could work. But it's not used that way so time() and other calls return the true time.

I'd have two uses for something like this: I understand the dangers and tradeoffs of doing this. I just wanted to know if it was possible. Setting a local $^T value is along the lines of what I was looking for, only with more widespread effect.

In reply to Re: Re: faking real date/time by steves
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