Looking through several pages of modules produced by looking up cpan://Time, I am still no better off with this issue:

localtime() gives me the time in the CET zone. But I am in a routine that is being given records containing a date and time field originally created in EST. Owing to DST inconstency it is not acceptable to apply the most usual difference of 5 hours, because the routine has to work all year round and that idea fails a couple of weeks of the year or so. So I need to get the current time in EST and find the difference which I can then apply to these records so that I am storing them in CET, wherever they came from in the world (that is when I eventually make the solution generic after resolving this immediate case).

Is there a way I can fool localtime() into giving me the EST time or any other idea for how to get the current EST time from a CET-based machine?

Thanks in advance for suggestions.

-M

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In reply to Finding a remote time by Moron

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