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Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as Won't Fix.
** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu Hardy)
Status: Confirmed = Won't Fix
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** Changed in: perl (Fedora)
Status: Unknown = Fix Released
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ENV{TZ} and strftime in perl not working
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** Also affects: perl (Fedora) via
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Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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ENV{TZ} and strftime in perl not working
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/347303
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** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu)
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ENV{TZ} and strftime in perl not working
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** Also affects: perl (Ubuntu Hardy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu Hardy)
Milestone: None = ubuntu-8.04.3
** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu Hardy)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu Hardy)
Status: New = Confirmed
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The following works:
use POSIX;
$ENV{TZ} = UTC;
#my $time = strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z, localtime(time));
my $time = `date`;
print $time\n;
$ENV{TZ} = US/Eastern;
my $time = `date`;
#my $time = strftime(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z, localtime(time));
print $time\n;
And I ran the code that doesn't
So it looks like its a bug with perl.
perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
When you call localtime for the first time it picks up the ENV{TZ} value
and remembers it. Every time you call localtime after, it will use that
old value for the TZ. The only way to change
