Peter Prymmer wrote:
> Charles Lane wrote:
>> BTW, I'm seeing failures of the vmsish test #17 that might be due to being
>> east of greenwich. This'll be a good opportunity to debug 'em.
> I am curious: Are you at CERN or DESY now? What is your
> SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL?
Gran Sasso lab in central Italy. Debugging Perl from 1km underground :)
SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL = 7200
SYS$TIMEZONE_DAYLIGHT_SAVINGS = 1
SYS$TIMEZONE_RULE = "MET-1MET_DST-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/2"
SYS$LOCALTIME = SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$ZONEINFO.SYSTEM]CET.
MULTINET_TIMEZONE = CET
MULTINET_TIMEZONE_RULES =...BUNCH OF STUFF..
I think multinet is setting the time via NTP, but the localtime stuff for
the CRTL is messed up.
You do "print scalar(localtime)" [ or the C equiv] and it's okay.
But the C function tzset says the TZ offset is 3600, and stat is getting
times that are one hour off from what DIR says they are.
I do a :
perl -e "print 'time is: ',(time()%86400/86400*24),' hours';"
and get 22.3... hours (it's 10:20 PM here). But it *should be 20.3... for
greenwich time -2 hrs from local.
So I don't think it's a Perl issue...it's a sys configuration issue.
But the pathology is complicated enough that I doubt it will be fixed
anytime soon.
Maybe we need to start a "what these test errors mean" document, listing
the errors we've run across on VMS, fixes or workarounds, severity, etc.
It might help for the next N times the "glob-basic" test error shows up.
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