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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with localtime from Cygwin's perl
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:09:50 -0800
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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:26:03PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> I'm observing the following:
>>
>> C09-272-A:date
>> Thu Mar 18 19:22:53 PST 2004
>> C09-272-A:perl -e 'print scalar (localtime) . "\n"'
>> Fri Mar 19 03:22:58 2004
>> C09-272-A:ccperl -e 'print scalar (localtime) . "\n"'
>> Thu Mar 18 19:23:03 2004
>> C09-272-A:type -p perl
>> /bin/perl
>> C09-272-A:type -p ccperl
>> /dev/c/progra~1/rational/clearc~1/bin/ccperl
>> C09-272-A:uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 C09-272-A 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown
>> unknown Cygwin
>>
>> Notice that when using Cygwin's perl I get a GMT time but when using
>> ccperl (A perl from Rational Clearcase based off of ActiveState) I get a
>> proper PST time. My question is why and what can I do to fix it.
>
>
> This is a bug in localtime_r (seen by threaded perls under cygwin) that
> I think is fixed in 1.5.8.
>
> You can work around it by putting "use POSIX 'tzset'; tzset()" anywhere
> before the first call to localtime.

Thanks. That fixed 'er right up.


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