Dear Monks

When I develop software I normally develop it on my Linux workstation and when its finished I copy it to an operational unix system. The following code demonstrates my problem:
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -lw

use strict ;
use POSIX 'strftime' ;
$ENV{TZ} = 'GMT' ;
my $t = time() ;
print strftime("%s", localtime(int $t)) ;

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On my Linux machine this works fine (perl v5.8.8), it prints epoch seconds, however, on the unix machine (perl v5.8.7) it prints: %s

I get the impression that %s is somehow not supported (man strftime).
I've actually no idea how to solve this, so all suggestions would be very welcome!!

Thanks in advance
LuCa

In reply to problem with 'strftime' on unix systems by jeanluca

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