Me again...

localtime is a built in perl function, I'm trying to modify its behaviour, so I think this question is a valid Perl question.Neverthless, maybe I'd have to ask first to ActiveState...

Substract a constant to time() every time I call it IMHO it's not the answer. It's not the porpouse of localtime, if it were we only need gmtime.

WIN32API-File-Time is related to file's times. Not work here.

The only way to change the behaviour is to set from the DOS shell the TZ variable, that is:

> set TZ=GTM 3

and then run the script. Setting it by system("set TZ=..") doesn't seems to work neigther.

I think it's a fail in the localtime implementation that only check TZ before the interpreter compile the code (setting TZ by system or %ENV in a BEGIN block doesn't work).

Sorry, I'm know that win$ sucks. It's the real problem here.I'll try to solve it for a little while more before give up.

Thanks for the answers.