Dear Monks

Just at the point I thought everything was working fine I noticed the following problem (see test script): 
#! /usr/bin/perl -l

use strict ;
use warnings ;
use POSIX 'strftime';

my $a = time() ; # local time is now 12:35:00 


print "input time is $a" ;

print "gmtime gives: ".gmtime($a) ;

my $b = strftime("%s", gmtime(int $a)) ; # %s converts date to epoch 

print "diff is: ".($a - $b) ;

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Output 
  input time is   1160390100
  gmtime gives: Mon Oct  9 10:35:00 2006
  diff is: 3600

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So, the 3600 is my problem, it should have been zero (I think)....
Any suggestions what I do wrong ? or how to get the the same result ($a) back ?

Thnx LuCa

ps maybe it will help, my localtime zone is CEST (there is a 2 hours diff with GMT)

In reply to working with epoch seconds by jeanluca

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