Hi
I have to deal with TimeZones and I'd like to use Time::ParseDate.
As I've got wrong results I herewith paste my little program that tries
to deal with an ebay-site that has two times: PST and MEZ and it
show a difference of only 3600 seconds (1 hour)?

Am I doing s.th wrong? Or is it a bug?

Thanks for your effort, I appreciate your 'service' allway when I came here! Best wishes to all for 2005 Carl
PS:I think you can copy, paste, and run it (hopefully)

#! /usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Time::ParseDate;
use Time::Zone;



my $GETTIMELIMIT = 30;


# official eBay-Time: PST and MEZ
my $url = 'http://cgi3.ebay.de/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?TimeShow';

my @L = ladeEbay( $url );
# print "loaded:\t",scalar @L,"\n";

%time = (
    myTime => tz_local_offset()
);
print "\n";
while ( @L) {
    my $l = shift(@L);

    if ( $l =~ s/(\(eBay\-Zeit\))//) {
        $l =~ s/^(.+?>)//g;
        $l =~ s/(<.+?>)/ /g;
        #print "\nzeit1:\t$l\n";
        my @i = split /[\s,\.]+/, $l;
        #print join ';  ', @i, "\n\n";
        #$i[0] = "$2 $1 $3" if ($i[0] =~ /(\w+)[\s-](\d+)[\s-](\d+)/);
        my @i = split /[\s,\.]+/, $l;
        $time{usaDay}  = "$i[4] $i[5] $i[6]";
        $i[7] =~ s/://g; #hhmmss[[AP]M]
        $i[7] .= ($i[7] lt '120000' ) ? ' AM':' PM';
        $time{usaTime} = $i[7];
        $time{usaTiZo} = $i[8];
        $time{usaOFF}  = tz_offset($i[8]);
        next;
    }
    if ( $l =~ s/(<B>eBay\s*Deutschland)//) {
        $l =~ s/^(.+?>)//g;
        $l =~ s/(<.+?>)/ /g;
        #print "zeit2:\t$l\n";
        my @i = split /[\s,\.]+/, $l;
        #print join ';  ', @i, "\n\n";
        my @i = split /[\s,\.]+/, $l;
        $time{brdDay}  = "$i[2] $i[3] $i[4]";
        $i[5] =~ s/://g; #hhmmss[[AP]M]
        $i[5] .= ($i[5] lt '120000' ) ? ' AM':' PM';
        $time{brdTime} = $i[5];
        $time{brdTiZo} = $i[6];
        $time{brdOFF}  = tz_offset($i[6]);
        last;
    }

}

$time{difOFF} = $time{brdOFF} - $time{usaOFF};
$time{usaSec} = parsedate($time{usaDay}.' '.$time{usaTime}, ZONE => $t
+ime{usaTiZo});
$time{brdSec} = parsedate($time{brdDay}.' '.$time{brdTime}, ZONE => $t
+ime{brdTiZo});
$time{diTime} = $time{brdSec} - $time{usaSec};



foreach (sort keys %time) {
    print "\t$_  => \t$time{$_}\n";
}
print "\n";


sub ladeEbay {
    my $s;
    eval {
        local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "Zeit_Limit $!"};
        alarm($GETTIMELIMIT); # 30 Sekunden = 0.5 min für ein get
        my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
        my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
        $s = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
        alarm(0);
    };
    if ($@ and ($@ =~ /Zeit_Limit/) ) {# da steht u.a. "Zeit_Limit" dr
+in
        $ERRORMAIL .="TIMEOUT, NIX GELADEN (30 sec): $@\n";
        alarm(0);
        return;
    }
    $s =~ s/\x0A|\x0D//g;
    return split /<table|<td|<tr/i, $s;
}
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