RE: Using ENV{'TZ'} in mod_perl

[Tyler <tf...@webmetrics.com>]

Hello,

I previously requested some help with setting $ENV{TZ} and using it's value
to modify the output of localtime (i.e. Make it time zone specific).  The
suggested solution was to use POSIX::tzset() because my perl installation
was compiled with thread support.  So this helped, however I'm still not
able to use $ENV{TZ} to modify the behavior of localtime in a cgi script.
Is there some sort of limitation with cgi scripts run under mod_perl
(specifically: PerlRun) that would prevent this from working?

 

Thank you,

Tyler Fullerton.

 

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From: Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate) [mailto:Philip.Garrett@manheim.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:25 AM
To: Tyler; modperl@perl.apache.org
Subject: RE: Using ENV{'TZ'} in mod_perl

 

If you're using a perl compiled with thread support, you'll need to call
POSIX::tzset() after setting $ENV{TZ}.

 

 


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From: Tyler [mailto:tfullert@webmetrics.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:09 PM
To: modperl@perl.apache.org
Subject: Using ENV{'TZ'} in mod_perl

Hello,


I have a script that use to use the value in the environment variable
ENV{'TZ'} to modify the output of the perl builtin localtime.  In other
words, I'd do something like this:

 

$ENV{'TZ'} = 'US/Eastern';

@time = localtime();

 

This use to give me the localtime in whatever timezone was in ENV{'TZ'}.
However, I have since then switched to using mod_perl (more specifically the
PerlRun module) and now this code no longer works (i.e. $ENV{'TZ'} doesn't
have any affect on localtime).  I've tried various modifications to my
mod_perl install (such as configuring PerlPassEnv, etc) but still can't get
it to work.  

 

Does anyone have any recommendations, or thoughts?

 

Thank you in advance,

Tyler Fullerton.

 



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