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From: Christian Weinberger <christian DOT weinberger AT directbox DOT com>
Subject: Re: perl localtime returns gmttime
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:14:56 +0000 (UTC)
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Kirill Yarosh <kirill AT mivzak DOT com> wrote in news:bolti1$12v$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org:

> I have update perl to 5.8.2 .
> After that i did find symptomatic insane behaviour of "local" function.
> Now it returns GMT time.
> 
> Kirill.
> 

Same problem with me. Only way to solve this was to go back to 5.6.
Based on the other postings I believe it is a Cygwin specific issue.

perl -e 'use POSIX; print strftime("%H:%M:%S", localtime) . "\n";'

This always returns GMT time with 5.8, but returns local time with 5.6.

Please keep 5.6 available as long as this has not been fixed.

Christian


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