On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >
> > Sadly gmtime doesn't return any component indicating the timezone. Of
> > course why not print out GMT instead of %Z?
>
> Because it won't always be GMT.
I'm confused. Why are you using gmtime then?
> > Alternatively, why not use Time::Object? It implements strftime without
> > the overhead of POSIX.pm, and does it in XS too.
>
> Does it know Time Zones?
It just does strftime, so you can do what you've got below without loading
POSIX. Plus its OO so it makes more sense (IMHO).
> Here's what I've got so far. The idea is to get
> &$format_date to work correctly everywhere.
>
> BEGIN {
> if ($ENV{MOD_PERL}) {
> use Apache::Util;
> $format_date = \&Apache::Util::ht_time;
> } else {
> use POSIX;
> $format_date = sub {
> POSIX::strftime($_[1] || "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z", $_[0] ?
> localtime($_[0]) : gmtime);
> };
I'm not sure I understand the correctness of this. Shouldn't it be:
gmtime($_[0] || time)
or
localtime($_[0] || time)
??
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