Re^5: Time zones

Assuming you're not running under mod_perl, I think you may have misunderstood what ikegami meant by changing %ENV only affects perl and it's children. This change will only affect the process you change it in, and any processes started by that process, with a call to fork or the equivalent. Even under mod_perl, I suspect it will work OK if you localize it.

Changing %ENV does not affect any other programs on the system, whether they are Perl scripts or otherwise. It doesn't even affect other running copies of the same script.

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Re^6: Time zones by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2004 at 20:25 UTC
Okay! Since is was local and in a block that's what I tought might be happening but I wasn't really sure. Thaks for everyones patience. I ran the following code on a machine that is Eastern Time. It printed out the same time in all the print statements. `use strict; use warnings; print scalar(localtime),"\n"; { local $ENV{'TZ'} = 'GMT'; print scalar(localtime),"\n"; local $ENV{'TZ'} = 'EST5EDT'; print scalar(localtime),"\n"; } print scalar(localtime),"\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Time zones by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2004 at 20:34 UTC
It should have printed different times right? Boy, this would be a whole lot easier the other way around. I could just call gmtime() on an EST box. Too bad I can't call estime() from a GMT!	[reply]
Re^7: Time zones by sgifford (Prior) on Sep 27, 2004 at 21:16 UTC
Yup, it did for me too. Guess you'll have to try one of the other ideas posted here. :) FWIW, it does work if you set `TZ` before starting Perl: `$ TZ='GMT' perl -e 'print localtime()."\n"'; Mon Sep 27 21:11:30 2004 $ TZ='EST5EDT' perl -e 'print localtime()."\n"'; Mon Sep 27 17:11:38 2004 $ TZ='MST' perl -e 'print localtime()."\n"'; Mon Sep 27 14:11:50 2004` [download]	[reply] [d/l]