On 11/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Alban</b> <<a href="mailto:extasia@extasia.org">extasia@extasia.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/17/06, Michael Friedman <<a href="mailto:friedman@highwire.stanford.edu">friedman@highwire.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> formatted as readable text or<br>> system('date +%z');<br>><br>> which even formats it in RFC-2822 format like you want it.
<br><br>Yes, this is indeed the format I want. However, I don't want to spawn<br>a shell and add an extra process. I generally don't like using<br>system() or qx{} if I can avoid doing so.</blockquote><div><br>use POSIX qw(strftime);
<br>my $offset = strftime("%z", localtime);<br><br></div></div>