Is there a way to capture the system time zone in perl?

    Yes.

    (SLAMS FIST ON DESK WHILE LAUGHING GIDDILY)

    Oh Lord, do I ever need coffee ...

    If the TZ environment variable is misset, then I'm not sure what you're going to do. Here is what I got off of our Sun server:

    $ env | grep TZ
TZ=US/East-Indiana
$

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    This might be a sysadmin thing to correct rather than a perl script thing.

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    In reply to Re: Time zone of the system by tbone1
    in thread Time zone of the system by Anonymous Monk

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