Re: $ENV{TZ} and localtime

Perl is here at the mercy of your system's timezone definitions. Probably those are b0rken.

What system are you on?

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Re^2: $ENV{TZ} and localtime by Amdes (Initiate) on Sep 20, 2007 at 21:57 UTC
I'm using Solaris 8 on Sun hardware.	[reply]
Re^3: $ENV{TZ} and localtime by Amdes (Initiate) on Sep 20, 2007 at 22:24 UTC
Thanks for your advice. I listed the contents of the /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory and found no subdirectory called Europe. I am therefore assuming that the system must default to a specified timezone if the given timezone is unrecognised. Thanks for your help.	[reply]
Re^4: $ENV{TZ} and localtime by almut (Canon) on Sep 20, 2007 at 22:46 UTC
Yes, it defaults to GMT for missing timezones (at least that's what the docs say — the DST offset is apparently being applied separately). BTW, you can probably generate the timezone files yourself. The sources are normally distributed in `/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src`. For some reason, the european zones are usually not compiled/installed automatically. So, just issue `"zic /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/europe"` to compile them. Unless told otherwise (`-d`), this command will install directly into the default `/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo`, so you'll of course need root privileges.	[reply] [d/l] [select]