On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:26:03PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
I'm observing the following:
C09-272-A:date Thu Mar 18 19:22:53 PST 2004 C09-272-A:perl -e 'print scalar (localtime) . "\n"' Fri Mar 19 03:22:58 2004 C09-272-A:ccperl -e 'print scalar (localtime) . "\n"' Thu Mar 18 19:23:03 2004 C09-272-A:type -p perl /bin/perl C09-272-A:type -p ccperl /dev/c/progra~1/rational/clearc~1/bin/ccperl C09-272-A:uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 C09-272-A 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
Notice that when using Cygwin's perl I get a GMT time but when using ccperl (A perl from Rational Clearcase based off of ActiveState) I get a proper PST time. My question is why and what can I do to fix it.
This is a bug in localtime_r (seen by threaded perls under cygwin) that I think is fixed in 1.5.8.
You can work around it by putting "use POSIX 'tzset'; tzset()" anywhere before the first call to localtime.
Thanks. That fixed 'er right up.
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