Oops, I think I have it backwards:
CDT = GMT - 5. MDT = GMT - 6. CST = GMT - 6. MST = GMT - 7.
So, today you should be 6 hours earlier than GMT. I wonder if it is a
problem with the way you have your TZ set.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk Bremer (NISC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "perl-win32-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:57
Subject: Re: when localtime isn't?
> I ran your code here in CDT:
>
> 58 52 10 23 9 102 3 295 1
> Local: Wed Oct 23 10:52:58 2002
> GMT: Wed Oct 23 15:52:58 2002
>
> CDT = GMT - 6. MDT = GMT - 7. CST = GMT - 5. MST = GMT - 6. It looks to me
> that the culprit is gmtime, it is not taking into account the daylight
> savings time offset.
>
> Dirk Bremer - Systems Programmer II - ESS/AMS - NISC St. Peters
> 636-922-9158 ext. 8652 fax 636-447-4471
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "perl-win32-users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:24
> Subject: when localtime isn't?
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok, localtime() has always done what I expected in the past, but on my
> > win2k machine(and 3 others I have tested), it doesn't.
> >
> > Under win2k this
> >
> > print "TZ = $ENV{TZ}\n";
> > @time = localtime();
> > print "@time\n";
> > print "Local: " . scalar localtime() . "\n";
> > print " GMT: " . scalar gmtime() . "\n";
> >
> > says this:
> >
> > TZ = MST-7MDT
> > 48 46 22 23 9 102 3 295 1
> > Local: Wed Oct 23 22:46:48 2002
> > GMT: Wed Oct 23 14:46:48 2002
> >
> >
> > So, the GMT is correct -- it's 8:46am MST == GMT - 7 hours + 1 for DST,
> but
> > localtime is returning GMT + 8 hours. My NT machine set to the same
> > timezone correctly reports the same GMT and the correct localtime. So,
> the
> > question is, what do I have configured wrong? (surely localtime is not
> > broken!)
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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