Eep. I thought I took that into account, but didn't. Here is a corrected
version:
>perl -MPOSIX -e'$ENV{TZ}="US/Eastern";print ctime(10**9)'
Sat Sep 8 21:46:40 2001
Howzat, works on my linux system at least.
-Daniel
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Bill Ricker wrote:
> But Daylight Time will be in effect then ... so first poster was correct with
> 9:46 pm ... but it's better to think UTC, because (a) the Epoch was midnight
> Greenwhich Mean Time (try ctime(0)), and (b) in UTC it's 9/9/01 or 001/9/9 as
> you prefer.
>
> Unambiguously, ISO standard time is 2001-09-09-01:46:40Z.
>
> > > perl -MPOSIX -e'$ENV{TZ}="EST";print ctime(10**9)'
> > Sat Sep 8 20:46:40 2001
> > > $ perl -le 'print scalar localtime 1e9'
> > > Sat Sep 8 21:46:40 2001
>
