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Re: Perl daylight savings time issue?

by choroba (Cardinal)
on Mar 14, 2016 at 14:38 UTC ( [id://1157653]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl daylight savings time issue? (nm, I'm an idiot)

What does $ENV{TZ} say? 
TZ='America/New_York' perl -wE 'print +(localtime)[-1]'
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Why should it be false if the "D" stands for Daylight in "Eastern Daylight Time"?

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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Re^2: Perl daylight savings time issue?
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Mar 14, 2016 at 14:51 UTC

    Setting TZ env var makes no difference.

    "$isdst is true if the specified time occurs during Daylight Saving Time, false otherwise."

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