Ugh, I need more caffeine today it seems. Ignore my idiotic path comment. Question of cron vs. non-cron still applies though? If nothing else but to narrow the conditions under which your issue is occurring.
Bobby > -----Original Message----- > From: Metz, Bobby > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:09 AM > To: datetime@perl.org > Subject: RE: Inconsistent bug with delta_ms, add, and time zones > > Ronald, > Do you run the script via cron? If so, do you only see the timezone > error when running it via cron and not when running manually? If yes to > both, then I'd wager the routine you referenced is impacted by the shell > path not being the same for cron as for your login session. I don't know > that module so this is pure speculation but thought that would be easy to > rule out just in case. > > Bobby > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:rkimb...@pangeamedia.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:52 AM > > To: Dave Rolsky > > Cc: datetime@perl.org > > Subject: Re: Inconsistent bug with delta_ms, add, and time zones > > > > Dave Rolsky wrote: > > > Sometimes DateTime::TimeZone thinks your local time zone is UTC. I > have > > > no idea why it'd would be doing this. You could hack up a local copy > of > > > DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Unix and have it spit out everything it's > > > doing and what it finds. > > > > > > Either it's doing something wrong or your system is very oddly > > configured. > > > > I've discovered that, on this system, although /etc/localtime is a copy > > of /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York, /etc/timezone contains > > 'Etc/UTC'. I presume that qualifies as an oddly configured system. :) > > > > I'm not sure why sometimes DateTime::TimeZone::Local would be getting > > the time zone from /etc/localtime and other times from /etc/timezone, > > though. Perhaps the call to File::Find::find() in > > DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Unix::_FindMatchingZoneinfoFile is failing > > intermittently? > > > > Ronald
