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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:09:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: perl localtime returns gmttime
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
> --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de> wrote:
> > Hello Kirill,
> > 
> > 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.
> > > Does anybody unite with me ?
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> ActiveState 5.8.0 (which is the latest they offer as far as I can tell) is
> correct:
> 
> $ /tools/perl/bin/perl -e use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime("%a
> %b\
>  %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime); print $now_string . "\n";
> Tue Nov  08:17:04 2003
> 
> $ date -R
> Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:17:29 -0700
> 

Hmmm, it seems AS perl doesn't support %e in strftime. Here is the output again
using %d:

$ /tools/perl/bin/perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime("%a
%b %d %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime); print $now_string . "\n";'
Tue Nov 11 09:07:54 2003

$ date -R
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:08:14 -0700

--Rick


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