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Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone
- To: mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
- Subject: Re: [MacPerl] time, date, and timezone
- From: Milivoj Ivkovic <mi@alma.ch>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 10:56:23 +0200
- In-Reply-To: <v04011700b21b20a1659f@[10.48.0.42]>
- References: <19980831144543.A5941@schinder.clark.net><v0401170cb210632499bc@[192.168.0.6]><v0401170cb20af3f5c03e@[192.168.0.6]><v04003a0bb20a96a0f88f@[140.174.42.29]><v04011700b20a7ea8d6c1@[192.168.0.1]><v0410130db20a1d1b2d2b@[131.161.254.80]><v04011704b20a05a9b0a7@[10.48.0.42]><199808252314.QAA23830@chinook.halcyon.com><v04011712b208d3ea112f@[10.48.0.42]><v04011718b20b58e78f53@[10.48.0.42]><v0401170cb210632499bc@[192.168.0.6]>
>> Since it's in Windows, it must be a bad idea 1/2 :-).
>
>Or it means that occasionally Windows does steal good ideas :-)
Was this still about a $TZ environment var. ? It is NOT in Windows! It
would be nice if it were, though. It's in the registry, but under different
keys in Win95 and NT !!
Windows does occasionnaly have/steal (who cares) good ideas, but this
doesn't look like one... :-)
Anyway, a $TZ would be nice, but the gmtime-localtime difference seems to
be the only _portable_ way of doing it. (And even with this, there's an
obscure bug on some Windows/Perl/C compiler combinations with time zones
that don't use DST).
Ah, and there's another problem: sometimes the $TZ will not be numeric but
text, and possibly ambiguous: BST should be Brazil Standard, but is
sometimes used for British Summer, and others like this...
M.
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