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 ¿?macnix ellem ~/code $
Oh good, someone else is seeing it too then.
I was trying to set up the guestbook suite from nms [1] and thought for a
while there that it had a bug in the date formatting code, but then I
realized that the only format code that seemed to produce the error is %Z,
and that it worked the way it's supposed to [a] for the date command on
OSX and [b] in the script on Solaris and Debian.
At that point I couldn't tell if I had screwed up my copy of POSIX for the
default Perl, or if it was already screwed up. Sounds like the latter now.
So, does anyone have a suggestion for a bugfix? Where would one submit a
Perl bug to Apple, now that that's what we seem to have here?
[1] http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ good stuff!
--
Chris Devers
Okay, Gene... so, -1 x -1 should equal what? A South American!
[] no human can understand the Timecube and Gene responded
without missing a beat Yeah. I'm not human.
