Re: [MacPerl] changing the time returned by localtime

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:09:16AM +1030, jakal wrote:
> Is there a simple way of changing the time returned by localtime; 
> 
> I am currently using $time = localtime(time); to get the time, which is 
> then output using print "$time"; and gives me something like "Mon Jan 
> 17 06:44:52 2000". 
> 
> which is the correct time according to the Australian server that it is 
> running on. The problem however is that almost all the users of the CGI 
> which generates the time will be in Europe, and it would make more 
> sense for the time to be about 10 hours ahead (or behind, I can't 
> remeber at the moment). Is there any easy one to do this? 
> 

If you want GMT, use gmtime().

(Much simpler than using localtime() and calculating the difference
yourself.  ;)

Ronald


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