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Top Forums Programming TZ, localtime and strftime problem on AIX and Solaris Post 302800769 by shamrock on Tuesday 30th of April 2013 01:08:51 PM
Old 04-30-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by biju64
But on our Solaris machine, we have the 'Europe/London' folder and file, a GB file and a GB-Eire file. Setting TZ to any of these does not work. All give:

<snip>
Secs: 3599 Time: 01-Jan-1970 01:59:59
Secs: 3600 Time: 01-Jan-1970 02:00:00
Secs: 3601 Time: 01-Jan-1970 02:00:01
<snip>

Which is different from what I get when I set TZ to Posix format : GMT0BST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0

<snip>
Secs: 3599 Time: 01-Jan-1970 00:59:59
Secs: 3600 Time: 01-Jan-1970 01:00:00
Secs: 3601 Time: 01-Jan-1970 01:00:01
<snip>

Strange...so it looks like it might work correctly when I get the 'Europe/London' file under zoneinfo folder on AIX (will need to test this)...but not sure why it does not work on Solaris.
Not sure why it doesnt work on Solaris...I can only talk about AIX as that is the machine I use. However you can try to get the latest timezone patch for your Solaris machine. Btw what is the os version for your Solaris box and compare the outputs of the following commands on AIX and Solaris and see if there is any difference which might hint at a timezone patch...
Code:
zdump -vc 1970 GB
zdump -vc 1970 GB-Eire
zdump -vc 1970 Europe/London

Obviously you cant run the last command on AIX as it doesnt have the Europe/London timezone info file but post the outputs of those commands here so all can look and suggest a solution...
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       Time::localTime - Convert a time to local time.

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