This hard-codes the timezone (+0200). I happen to know that it is two hours off, but in general, the program can run in any local timezone, so I would need to find out how much I am away from UTC.

In addition, I would strongly prefer a solution which does not involve DateTime. In my case, parsing the string is easy enought that it can be done by HTTP::Date, so the only problem left is the timezone issue. So, is there an easy way to find out the time difference? Somehow Perl must already "know" this (otherwise, it would not be able to implement gmtime and localtime correctly, doesn't it?)

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re^2: Converting local time to UTC mystery by rovf
in thread Converting local time to UTC mystery by rovf

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