Hi Monks,
I'm having a problem with some code to get the time/date for specific timezones no matter what the timezone on the actual server is set to... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Time::Local;
#get the time in Sydney, regardless of what the server may be configur
+ed for
my @dayofweek = (qw(Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa
+turday));
my @monthnames = (qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec))
+;
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday);
#$ENV{TZ} = ':/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney';
$ENV{TZ} = ':/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris';
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday) = localtime($TimeInSeco
+nds);
$year += 1900;
print "This date is $dayofweek[$wday], $monthnames[$mon] $mday, $year\
+n";
print "This time is $hour:$min:$sec\n";

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for some reason I can't figure, it prints the following:
This date is Thursday, Jan 1, 1970
This time is 1:0:0

but the server time is set correctly to todays date. Can some kind monk point out my mistake(s)?

In reply to different time zones by Anonymous Monk

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