Which is weird because dumpbin shows strftime() being imported from the right place.

Yes - it's being imported from the right place .... therefore we deduce that the timezone is not being set as intended. I added 3 warn() messages to the relevant section of the 02core.t script. It now looks like:

SKIP: {
    skip "can't register TZ changes in a pseudo-fork", 2 if $is_pseudo
+_fork;
    use POSIX;
    warn "1 POSIX::strftime: ", POSIX::strftime("%Z\n", localtime);
    local $ENV{TZ} = "EST5";
    warn "2 POSIX::strftime: ", POSIX::strftime("%Z\n", localtime);
    Time::Piece::_tzset();  # register the environment change
    warn "3 POSIX::strftime: ", POSIX::strftime("%Z\n", localtime);
    my $lt = localtime;
    cmp_ok(scalar($lt->tzoffset), 'eq', '-18000');
    cmp_ok($lt->strftime("%Z"), 'eq', 'EST');
}
[download]

Using VC 7 and a perl-5.10.0 built by VC 7 everything works fine and the modified script outputs (as desired):

.
.
ok 37
1 POSIX::strftime: AUS Eastern Daylight Time
2 POSIX::strftime: EST
3 POSIX::strftime: EST
ok 38
ok 39
ok 40
.
.
[download]

But using VC 7 with ActivePerl-5.10.1 (or with ActivePerl-5.10.0), the output becomes:

.
.
ok 37
1 POSIX::strftime: AUS Eastern Daylight Time
2 POSIX::strftime: AUS Eastern Daylight Time
3 POSIX::strftime: AUS Eastern Daylight Time
ok 38
not ok 39
#   Failed test at t/02core.t line 65.
#          got: ''
#     expected: 'EST'
ok 40
.
.
[download]

Apparently for this test to work with MSVC++ 7.0 on a perl built by MSVC++ 6, the Time::Piece authors need to devise a way of getting the change to $ENV{TZ} reflected in the right place so that their strtftime call can detect it.

Cheers,
Rob

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.