Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : mark lewis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 05:38 pm

Hey mark!

Feb 22 18:16 05, mark lewis wrote to Johan Billing:

 ml> my first question is how does the OS know what to set gmttime to? 
 ml> AFAIK, it cannot without some other setting like TZ and without being 
 ml> told if the BIOS clock is running localtime or gmttime...

You must be thinking of other OS's, not anything UNIXie.  The Perl POSIX module 
seems to be able to figure it out, or at least running on a Linux system.  I 
tried it on both a UTC and a PST set machine and it adjusted itself 
accordingly.  A call to gmtime on either one produced the proper results.  That 
is another plus for using the POSIX module methinks.  I have no idea how it 
would work on any other OS but then that doesn't matter since even if I use 
this with the XML-RPC server the "right" solution will be found seeing as the 
server is running on Linux.  It won't matter what the client is using, unless 
it is programmed into the functionality of the server, and then the client will 
have to supply it (the localtime wrt it's setting or zone).  I think UTC is 
definetly the way to go.  Simplifies everything no matter what the localtime is 
set to on any machine.  If the target can't convert or doesn't wish to then 
assume UTC.  Simple.

Life is good,
Maurice

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