From: Tyler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello,
I previously requested some help with setting $ENV{TZ} and using
it’s value to modify the output of localtime (i.e. Make it time
zone specific). The suggested solution was to use POSIX::tzset()
because my perl installation was compiled with thread support. So
this helped, however I’m still not able to use $ENV{TZ} to modify
the behavior of localtime in a cgi script. Is there some sort of
limitation with cgi scripts run under mod_perl (specifically:
PerlRun) that would prevent this from working?
Personally, I keep all my dates in GMT and then just render for users
with a function that wraps Date::Calc operations. I find it much
easier to know that every time value in my system is GMT , and I can
use the same standard wrappers off of localtime output to convert for
display without ever touching the ENV stuff.
Some people like playing around with ENV-- i try to avoid it at all
costs.
