Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>
> I'm confused. Why are you using gmtime then?
Because if no time is supplied, I want it to default to GMT. I'm setting
up an app in which the database will store date/time in GMT only, but
will serve it out to users in their own local timezones. So sometimes
it'll be GMT and sometimes it won't.
> > Does it know Time Zones?
>
> It just does strftime, so you can do what you've got below without loading
> POSIX. Plus its OO so it makes more sense (IMHO).
So %Z still won't work properly when I use gmtime.
> I'm not sure I understand the correctness of this. Shouldn't it be:
>
> gmtime($_[0] || time)
>
> or
>
> localtime($_[0] || time)
>
No, because if no time is supplied, I want UTC. If a time is supplied, I
want no alteration to that time (gmtime would correct it). The goal is
to get it to act exactly as ht_time does. Maybe this:
BEGIN {
if ($ENV{MOD_PERL}) {
use Apache::Util;
$format_date = \&Apache::Util::ht_time;
} else {
use POSIX;
$format_date = sub {
POSIX::strftime($_[1] || $_[0] ? "%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" :
"%a, %d %b %Y %T GMT", $_[0] ? localtime($_[0]) :
(gmtime)[0..7]);
};
}
}
Which also corrects for the one hour difference between them (why would
gmtime() ever return true for daylight savings??? It does!
D
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