On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Evan Carroll <m...@evancarroll.com> wrote: >> which dies with the error: >> >> Cannot determine local time zone > > Well ubuntu doesn't set the TZ env var, so check out the source for the > fallback > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DROLSKY/DateTime-TimeZone-0.86/lib/DateTime/TimeZone/Local/Unix.pm > > That is what your system should be using to determine timezone.. My > initial guess is /etc/timezone doesn't exist or doesn't have the > timezone.. It should have it.. > > mine reads "America/Chicago" also on Ubuntu 8.10. Good luck >
Yes, that's it. /etc/timezone did not exist on my machine. I opened the System/Administration/Time and Date and it did not have a timezone. I guess it lost it at one of the upgrades though I don't know. Anyway I set it to Asia/Jerusalem, closed the window which created the /etc/timezone file containing Asia/Jerusalem. After that the sample code ran fine. Thanks for your help Gabor
