[Bug 347303] Re: ENV{TZ} and strftime in perl not working

[Rolf Leggewie]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: perl (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  ENV{TZ} and strftime in perl not working

Status in “perl” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “perl” source package in Hardy:
  Won't Fix
Status in “perl” package in Fedora:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If you run the following:

  perl -e 'use POSIX;
  $ENV{TZ} = "UTC";
  my $time = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z", localtime(time));
  print "$time\n";
  $ENV{TZ} = "US/Eastern";
  my $time = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z", localtime(time));
  print "$time\n";'

  You should get two different times.

  2009-03-23 14:15:13 UTC
  2009-03-23 10:15:13 EDT

   But in Ubuntu 8.04 server (lsb_release -rd =>Description:      Ubuntu
  8.04.2, Release: 8.04) you instead get

  2009-03-23 14:15:40 UTC
  2009-03-23 14:15:40 EDT

  It does the same thing for almost any timezone you give it. It give
  UTC time but labels it as the proper time zone.

  This happens on my 8.04 desktop version as well, but not on any 8.10
  machines.

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