I realize that this thread is older than Perl itself, but it comes up very high in Google, so I thought I'd update.

The following works perfectly for me in Perl 5.10:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

### US Time Zones  
#my $time_zone = 'US/Alaska';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Aleutian';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Arizona';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Central';
my $time_zone = 'US/Eastern';
#my $time_zone = 'US/East-Indiana';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Hawaii';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Indiana-Starke';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Michigan';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Mountain';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Samoa';
#my $time_zone = 'US/Pacific';

### set time zone for Perl to access with localtime
### can be any zone listed in /usr/share/zoneinfo and its subfolders
$ENV{TZ} = $time_zone;

print "System Time Zone from Perl is $ENV{TZ}\n";

my $timenow = localtime(time);
print "Time from System is $timenow\n";

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There was no need to use POSIX::tzset().

It works well from both the command line and from Apache2.

-Wes

In reply to Re: Mod_Perl multiple timezones by waldo22
in thread Mod_Perl multiple timezones by dtr

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