SPUG: Portable way to get local time zone

[Darren/Torin/Who Ever...]

Richard Anderson, in an immanent manifestation of deity, 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 ...

You can look at the difference between localtime() and gmtime().  I did
this at first.

But then I needed to do more and found out that there is a
Time::Timezone modules on CPAN...

Darren
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