--- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
--Rick
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