Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:42:00 +0800 From: Greg Matheson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl localtime returns gmttime Message-ID: <20031111204200.B30234@ms> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2912429468.20031111130327@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <2912429468.20031111130327@familiehaase.de>; from gp@familiehaase.de on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 13:03:27 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id hABCY6xr028135 On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Sunday, November 9, 2003, 6:29:09 PM, you wrote: > > > I have update perl to 5.8.2 . > > After that i did find symptomatic insane behaviour of "local" function. > > Now it returns GMT time. > Yes, it is wrong here too. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > $perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime ("%a %b %e > > %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime); print $now_string . "\n";' > > Sun Nov 9 15:06:30 2003 > > > $ date -R > > Sun, 09 Nov 2003 17:06:33 +0200 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Can someone with perl 5.8.2 on Linux / perl 5.8.2 on Windows (AS & MinGW) > try if it is wrong there too, please? It's OK with MinGW. The date is in Chinese, however. greg@7106 ~/perl-5.8.2 $ ./perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime ("%a %b %e > %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime); print $now_string . "\n";' 星期二 十一月 20:14:44 2003 greg@7106 ~/perl-5.8.2 $ date -R Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:15:02 +0800 greg@7106 ~/perl-5.8.2 $ ./perl -v This is perl, v5.8.2 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread -- Greg Matheson, Taiwan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/