tos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello friends,

given: two perl-versions on a windows xp(svp1)-system.

  1. perl: (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 2), Platform: osname=cygwin, osvers=1.5.5(0.9432)
  2. aperl: (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0

The correct (system-)time is shown by activePerl 
# aperl -we 'use Time::localtime;print ctime()'
Wed Apr 21 17:11:38 2004

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Thought cygwin shows this time, too ... 
# date
Wed Apr 21 17:11:42     2004

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perl 5.8 doesn't but prints (presumably) the gmtime instead. 
# perl -we 'use Time::localtime;print ctime()'
Wed Apr 21 15:11:45 2004

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What's to do for sychronizing ?

Thanks in advance and regards,

tos at cologne/rhine/GMT+01:00

Is simplicity best or simply the easiest Martin L. Gore

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Re: perl 5.8 shows wrong timestamp on cygwin
by xorl (Deacon) on Apr 21, 2004 at 15:53 UTC

    I think the problem is that under cygwin localtime returns GMTime.

    There's a solution here:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg37313.html

    which says "use POSIX 'tzset'; tzset()" before calling localtime.

    I haven't tested it. So use at your own risk.

    -XorL

    Update: just fixed a typo.

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      Don't be too self-critical xorl. You aren't (imho) an I. ;)

      Thanks for your hint. Regards, tos

      p.s.: no risk, but fun ...

      works fine

      # date
Thu Apr 22 07:38:57     2004

# perl -we 'use POSIX "tzset";tzset();use Time::localtime;print ctime(
+)'
Thu Apr 22 07:38:59 2004

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      Is simplicity best or simply the easiest Martin L. Gore
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Re: perl 5.8 shows wrong timestamp on cygwin
by ysth (Canon) on Apr 21, 2004 at 16:33 UTC
    This is a cygwin bug that affected threaded perl.

    I believe this was fixed in cygwin-1.5.9. If not, it is fixed in current snapshots and the fix will be in 1.5.10.

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