This isn't a perl list, but I was playing around and found you can do this
in perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> BEGIN
> {
> $ENV{LC_TIME} = 'en_US.UTF-8';
> }
> print "content-type: text/plain\n\n";
> print `who`;
> print `locale`;
Hopefully that helps,
- Y
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote:
> This is because of the locale settings. I changed the script to show the
> locale (and to be plain text so the spaces are visible).
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> use strict;
>> print "content-type: text/plain\n\n";
>> print `who`;
>> print `locale`;
>
>
> Apache shows this:
>
> yehuda pts/2 Jul 1 17:37 (pool-xxxxxx.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
>> LANG=
>> LANGUAGE=
>> LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
>> LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
>> LC_TIME="POSIX"
>> LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
>> LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
>> LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
>> LC_PAPER="POSIX"
>> LC_NAME="POSIX"
>> LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
>> LC_ALL=
>
>
> And the command line shows this:
>
> content-type: text/plain
>>
>
>
> yehuda pts/2 2016-07-01 17:37 (
>> pool-xxxxxx.washdc.fios.verizon.net)
>> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=
>> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
>> LC_ALL=
>
>
>
> The environment variable that sets how the time is shown is LC_TIME.
> You can probably change this in your script (for example, php provides a
> way <http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php>, perl likely has
> one too) and there is a third-party module that claims to set the locale
> for the whole server.
> Your OS might also give you a way to set it for the whole server.
>
> - Y
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Rob McAninch <rob.mcani...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Server version: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
>>
>> This seems like it should be simple but manual pages and searching have
>> not shown me an answer yet. Reduced it to as simple as I can, I don't
>> understand why the date format is different in each.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> use strict;
>> print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
>> print `who`;
>>
>>
>> When I call it up in a web browser I get
>>
>> rob pts/1 Jul 1 12:28 (192.x.x.x)
>>
>> The same script on a command line via ssh I get:
>>
>> prompt$ perl tryme.cgi
>> content-type: text/html
>>
>> rob pts/1 2016-07-01 12:28 (192.x.x.x)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rob
>>
>
>
