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Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

From:
Bart Lateur
Date:
September 15, 2000 00:39
Subject:
Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch
Message ID:
8rt2sskv3feb42gbv8o6jubokb6ul88rmh@4ax.com
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:19:34 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:

>And yes, sometimes the OS is completely lacking in knowledge of a
>time zone. 

This problem isn't new. Currently, Perl must know the timezone to be
able to correctly generate gmtime() and localtime().

-- 
	Bart.

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