SPUG: Portable way to get local time zone

[Lynn A Wilkins]

Isn't the defference between localtime() and gmtime() the your timezone? (In
hours.)
 -law


On Mon,
19 Mar 2001, starfire wrote: > What is a portable way to get the local timezone
from within a mod_perl > module?  I see that on Linux 2.2.16 I can do "ls -l
/etc/localtime" and on > Solaris 2.7 I can do "tail -1 /etc/TIMEZONE", but I
want something that is > portable.
> 
> The $TZ variable does not seem to be set in my mod_perl program's
> environment ...
> 
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> Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com    www.unixscripts.com
> Perl/Java/Oracle/Unix consulting  Seattle, WA, USA
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