Re: Finding my localtime

2015-02-04 Thread SSC_perl
On Feb 4, 2015, at 5:20 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > I seems to me if you change locales, you would necessarily change > timezones too. But I haven't done much playing around with locales. :( Me neither, but I'm learning more than I thought I would! ;) Looking at the locales for just th

Re: Finding my localtime

2015-02-04 Thread SSC_perl
On Feb 4, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > Have you read `perldoc perllocale` especially the `setlocale` function? > http://perldoc.perl.org/perllocale.html#The-setlocale-function Actually, I did, but unless I read it incorrectly, it doesn't appear to have anything to do with t

Re: Finding my localtime

2015-02-04 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 11:21:32 -0800 SSC_perl wrote: > I'm trying to break out a timestamp into it's appropriate fields, > like so: > > my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = > localtime($my_time); > > but no matter if I use localtime or gmtime, $my_time gets analyzed a

Re: Finding my localtime

2015-02-04 Thread SSC_perl
On Feb 4, 2015, at 1:55 PM, $Bill wrote: > > I had a similar situation where I'm in Pacific time and my server is in > Eastern time. > > My solution was to just add this to my BEGIN { } : > $ENV{TZ} = 'PST8PDT'; > to force my time displays to Pacific time. I didn't think about add

Finding my localtime

2015-02-04 Thread SSC_perl
I'm trying to break out a timestamp into it's appropriate fields, like so: my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime($my_time); but no matter if I use localtime or gmtime, $my_time gets analyzed as either in the server's timezone or in UTC. I need to