Craig,
Thank you very much for the reply. use vmsish 'time'; # Had no effect Neither did changing MULTINET_TIMEZONE Haven't had a chance to dig into the Compaq docs. But I will. Thanks, for the advice Tom "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/03/2002 04:19:38 PM To: Thomas R Wyant_III/AE/DuPont@DuPont cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: File mod date retrieval problem At 02:55 PM 6/3/2002 -0400, Thomas R Wyant_III wrote: >I'm having a problem getting correct times from the stat () function under >Perl 5.6.1/OpenVMS/AXP 7.1-1H (details appended). I suspect a configuration >problem on the VMS system in question, but am out of places to look. A >quick demo: > >$ perl -e "print scalar localtime" >Mon Jun 3 14:25:46 2002 >$ create trw.tmp > Exit >$ perl -e "print scalar localtime ((stat 'trw.tmp')[9])" >Mon Jun 3 15:26:00 2002 >$ sho tim > 3-JUN-2002 14:28:13 Tom, running the same Perl kit on OpenVMS Alpha 7.1, Multinet 4.3, I get: $ create trw.tmp Exit $ perl -e "print scalar localtime ((stat 'trw.tmp')[9])" Mon Jun 3 14:56:07 2002 $ show time 3-JUN-2002 14:56:14 So I think that does narrow it down to your time configuration as you suspected. One workaround might be to experiment with "use vmsish 'time'", though I think that would really just be dodging the problem rather than solving it. Perl uses the C RTL's stat() and doesn't tinker with the values it gets unless vmsish 'time' is in effect. See $ perldoc vmsish > "MULTINET_TIMEZONE" = "EST" This may well be your problem. I suspect you want "EDT" either there or in SYS$TIMEZONE_NAME. There is a good bit of information on OpenVMS timekeeping in the OpenVMS FAQ at www.openvms.compaq.com. HTH.
