Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : Johan Billing
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 08:40 am

Hey Johan!

Feb 22 17:08 05, Johan Billing wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> Sure. I think that it would probably be a bit more difficult to get 
 JB> the UTC offset through the POSIX module, but it can probably be done 
 JB> by calculating the difference between gmtime() and localtime().

Actually it is easy but then again it doesn't matter since localtime on the 
server is UTC here.  :-)

I haven't tried it for awhile but it seems to me that output can be adjusted to 
any timezone no matter what the local server's localtime is.  I think that 
requires /usr/share/zoneinfo (libc) but don't quote me on that.  I know that a 
call to "date" on the commandline definetly can be adjusted to differing 
timezones without setting the system date.  I don't see why the Perl module 
would be any different.  I'll check it later since we here at Kumalockasun 
would find that useful wrt network date.

Life is good,
Maurice

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