Check day light saving time

[mag007]

Is there a way to figure our if a certain machine, UNIX, satisfies the new day light saving time regulation?

 

[KevinADC]

are you asking how to do that with perl?

- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[mag007]

hehe yes.

I am thinking something like this.

Convert March 7, 2007 into UTC, and then run a localtime() against its result. Since localtime($result) goes into the OS.

Do you think thats going to work?

TIA

 

[Kirsle]

localtime returns as its last argument a variable "isDST" which is true when daylight savings time is being observed.

perldoc localtime

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[travs69]

I would guess that unless you have patched your machine then it is not going to work for the new DST.