On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:58:30AM +1300, Dan Horne wrote: >>> ient for my needs. And if no one cares about why the problem is >>> occurring (why it arises when one module calls DateTime->now but not >>> others), I'm more than happy to let things go! >> >> I'd love to fix it, but I can't without a recipe to reproduce it. I >> suspect the call to ->now is a red herring. That code path doesn't do >> anything special with regards to timezones. It probably has something >> to do with _your_ code that's around the call to ->now and >> DateTime::TimeZone. >> > > Oh, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. But it's something that causes > DateTime's now to fail only in the context of how I use it. I know it > fails in DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Unix because I've stepped though the > code using the Perl debugger, and I've gone right to the line where it > fails (127, after trapping the die on line 115). I also know that it only > fails if I invoke my class from a web app. If I call it from a simple > script, it doesn't fail either.
The web app likely has more restricted permissions than your user; any chance that could be related? -- Ken Irving, fn...@uaf.edu, 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks