Local time and CGI's

estratos · 10-09-2007, 10:29 AM

Hi,

Running "localtime" (C code) in a standard application returns the local time depending on the time zone configured in /etc/TZ. This is working fine on my OpenSlug system so far. The problem comes when I run the same code in a cgi (fast cgi in fact) through the Lighttpd web server. Then "localtime" returns the current time in UTC format, forgetting the contents of the TZ file.

Any idea? I really need to display the local time in both the application and the cgi.

Thank you very much,

Daniel.

bigearsbilly · 10-10-2007, 07:51 AM

maybe the ENV isn't set up for the cgi user?
try
use Env;
print "TZ=$ENV{TZ}\n";
print "LC_TIME=$ENV{LC_TIME}\n";
in the CGI script.

see perldoc perllocale

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl  -s


use Env;

${TZ}="UTC";
print scalar localtime, "\n";

${TZ}="GB";
print scalar localtime, "\n";

Code:

billym>./1.pl
Wed Oct 10 12:48:33 2007
Wed Oct 10 13:48:33 2007