[prog] Perl dates

[k.clair]

Hmmmm.  That is interesting.

What sort of system are you running perl on, and what version of perl?

My results turn out the same (on linux with perl 5.8):

kclair at home:~$ perl -e 'print localtime()."\n"; print localtime(time)."\n";'
Thu Feb 20 08:21:36 2003
Thu Feb 20 08:21:36 2003

kristina

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:25:03PM +1100, Sue Stones wrote:
- yes
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: "k.clair" <k at klerp.net>
- To: "Sue Stones" <suzo at bigpond.net.au>
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- Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 7:01 AM
- Subject: Re: [prog] Perl dates
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- 
- On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +1100, Sue Stones wrote:
- -
- - Interestingly using localtime without calling time first gave me a
- compleatly
- - other date than the current one.
- 
- Do you mean using localtime() as opposed to localtime(time) ?
- 
- kristina
- 
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Key fingerprint = 6B2F AB26 A8A9 DE4D 91FD  8E93 7A6B 387A 2795 714B
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