SPUG: Portable way to get local time zone

[Richard Anderson]

No - please read my previous email:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Anderson" <Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com>
To: "starfire" <starfire at zipcon.net>; "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin at daft.com>
Cc: <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: SPUG: Portable way to get local time zone

> Looking at the difference between localtime() and gmtime() will tell me the offset between local time and GMT, but it won't tell me what time zone I am in.  For example, in the summer in Phoenix the offset is the same as the offset in L.A., but in the winter the Phoenix offset is the same as the Denver offset.  So if the offset is seven hours, how do I know if I am in Denver, Phoenix or L.A?
> 

Phoenix is in neither PST nor MST - it is in its own special time zone.  Other areas of the world (e.g. southern Indiana) are just as weird.

Richard Anderson, Ph.D.          www.unixscripts.com
Perl / Java / Oracle / Unix       Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com
Raycosoft, LLC                        Seattle, WA, USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn A Wilkins" <law at isomedia.com>
To: "starfire" <starfire at zipcon.net>; <spug-list at pm.org>; <slug-board at seaslug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: SPUG: Portable way to get local time zone


> 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 ...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Richard.Anderson at raycosoft.com    www.unixscripts.com
> > Perl/Java/Oracle/Unix consulting  Seattle, WA, USA
> > 
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