Re: %ENV{TZ} does not always affect CORE::localtime() under multi-threaded perl

in reply to %ENV{TZ} does not always affect CORE::localtime() under multi-threaded perl

This is a problem on the C level, I believe. The localtime(3) call does not always check the current value of the TZ environment variable. To force it to do so, POSIX-compliant systems should use the tzset(3) call.

You can imitate this in perl via:

use POSIX; $\ = "\n";
$ENV{TZ} = "EST";
POSIX::tzset();
print scalar localtime();
$ENV{TZ} = "DST";
POSIX::tzset();
print scalar localtime();
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