Local Time Problem

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

All,

My "localtime" function has suddenly started to give me the GMT time instead of PST. Any idea how this could happen? My system time is correctly set to PST. Please help.

OS - Windows 2000

I am trying to use this in my regular perl "Build" script.

code snippet
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#!perl -w
use strict;

my ($hr, $min) = (localtime)2,1;
print "Time is $hr:$min \n";

Comment on Local Time Problem

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Re: Local Time Problem by Fletch (Bishop) on Aug 19, 2005 at 17:26 UTC
Well, in the absence of any code or more pertinent details like the OS involved the first guess would be to check that `$ENV{TZ}` isn't set to `GMT` in whatever process is spawning your perl program (either your shell or the webserver if this is a CGI). Baring that, I'd look for any small passing singularities and/or eddies in the spacetime continuum. ("It's his couch then, is it?") -- We're looking for people in ATL	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Local Time Problem
by Fletch (Bishop) on Aug 19, 2005 at 17:26 UTC

Well, in the absence of any code or more pertinent details like the OS involved the first guess would be to check that $ENV{TZ} isn't set to GMT in whatever process is spawning your perl program (either your shell or the webserver if this is a CGI).

Baring that, I'd look for any small passing singularities and/or eddies in the spacetime continuum. ("It's his couch then, is it?")

--
We're looking for people in ATL

[reply]
[d/l]