Re: ENV{TZ} and localtime? (inconsistent time in child script)


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Re: ENV{TZ} and localtime? (inconsistent time in child script)

by ikegami (Patriarch)

on Sep 06, 2007 at 16:54 UTC ( [id://637478]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I started looking into this, but I hit the limit of my currently available resources. I hope to look further into this tonight. Here's what I found out so far:

POSIX::tzset is a thin wrapper for the C library function with the same name. The entirety of the XS code is:
```
void
tzset()
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Windows and Visual Studio support tzset.
Changes to %ENV are reflected in the process's actual environment. I used Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings (which is mapped to a system call that knows nothing of %ENV) to verify this.

I hope to test the example code in MSDN's tzset documentation using VS6, what ActivePerl uses.

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Re^2: ENV{TZ} and localtime? (inconsistent time in child script)
by blahblahblah (Priest) on Sep 07, 2007 at 00:30 UTC

_tzset

Use the following syntax to set the TZ environment variable:

set TZ=tzn[+ | –]hh[:mm[:ss] ][dzn]

tzn
Three-letter time-zone name, such as PST. You must specify the correct
+ offset from local time to UTC.
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