SPUG: localtime() returning hour in wrong range?

[Tim Maher]

SPUGsters,

The Camel coyly avoids specifying the ranges for most of localtime's
various return values, but gives the hint that they follow (time.h's)
"struct tm", which has the hour coded as 0-23.

So why does the following program display a localtime-derived hour
value that /matches/ the one returned by the Linux date command,
rather than a value that's less by one? E.g., if date says it's 11
AM, shouldn't $hour be 10, not 11? Am I overlooking something?

#! /usr/bin/perl -wl
# Tim Maher, tim at TeachMePerl.com

system 'date';  # show for comparison
(undef, $minutes, $hour)=localtime;
print "\$hour/\$minutes returned by localtime(): $hour/$minutes";

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