Re: [Fun With Perl] Re: system("date | perl -p -e 'chop' >>$timef")

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 11:49 -0700 06/07/1999, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>Of course, localtime doesn't return the timezone.  Perl doesn't know
>it portably, so it just trusts the result from localtime(3). :)

I doubt the original person who wrote my little one liner really 
cared about the timezone (in any case, the system("date") was the 
least cause of my amusement ;).

Of course, the only reason `date` knows the timezone either is that 
someone has specifically set the timezone on the given machine... (I 
wish I _could_ get a trustworthy/portable timezone for Perl...)

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