I tried your script and got essentially the same result as you: POSIX timezone tag seems broken: System date command thinks the timezone is CST. POSIX thinks the timezone is ¿??q?2X.
One more data point. Mike McShan OK City >On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, ellem wrote: > >> using your code on FreeBSD 4.4 I get >> >> barney ellem ~/code $ perl posx.pl >> System date command thinks the timezone is EST. >> POSIX thinks the timezone is EST. >> >> I get this on OS X 10.1.2 >> >> macnix ellem ~/code $ perl posx.pl >> POSIX timezone tag seems broken: >> System date command thinks the timezone is EST. >> POSIX thinks the timezone is ø?macnix ellem ~/code $ > >Oh good, someone else is seeing it too then. > I