On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > I'm confused. Why are you using gmtime then?
>
> Because if no time is supplied, I want it to default to GMT. I'm setting
> up an app in which the database will store date/time in GMT only, but
> will serve it out to users in their own local timezones. So sometimes
> it'll be GMT and sometimes it won't.
Gotcha.
> BEGIN {
> if ($ENV{MOD_PERL}) {
> use Apache::Util;
> $format_date = \&Apache::Util::ht_time;
> } else {
> use POSIX;
> $format_date = sub {
> POSIX::strftime($_[1] || $_[0] ? "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" :
> "%a, %d %b %Y %T GMT", $_[0] ? localtime($_[0]) :
> (gmtime)[0..7]);
> };
> }
> }
You should still switch to Time::Object. Loading POSIX.pm still loads in
the .so which contains loads of cruft for things you don't
want/need. Whereas loading Time::Object is a lot smaller. Of course I'm
not sure how you'd fix the isdst thing with Time::Object, since it does
strftime internally...
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