[sf-perl] Getting the timezone

Steve Fink sphink at gmail.com
Mon Nov 20 16:30:10 PST 2006


On 11/20/06, David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/17/06, Michael Friedman <friedman at highwire.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > formatted as readable text or
> >         system('date +%z');
> >
> > which even formats it in RFC-2822 format like you want it.
>
> Yes, this is indeed the format I want.  However, I don't want to spawn
> a shell and add an extra process.  I generally don't like using
> system() or qx{} if I can avoid doing so.


use POSIX qw(strftime);
my $offset = strftime("%z", localtime);
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