Re: Problem with GMT date

["Nunayo Bizniz" <wuurp@hotmail.com>]

> > >>I am trying to duplicate a list archive I have running on a
> > >>machine in the US on another system in the UK. I am using
> > >>$MSGGMTDATE to display the GMT date and I am also doing the day
> > >>grouping. On the system in the US everything works fine, but in
> > >>the UK archive, the GMT is 1 hour later than it should be.  The
> > >>server is at +0100 timezone. On the UK system, the days appear
> > >>to begin at 01:00, which is actually 00:00 so that's correct,
> > >>except I also get some duplicate day section headers, e.g. two
> > >>September 15 sections.
> >
> > >>I am using the same resource file on both, and MHonArc 2.6.8
>
> You did not provide the version of Perl or the operating system
> you are using, but they could have part in what may be wrong.

US -  Slackware Linux 8.0.0, perl v5.6.1
UK - Cobalt Linux release 6.0 (Shinkansen), perl 5.005_03

> Examining the db files you provided to me, one difference I
> noted is the LANG resource is different, but I am not sure
> it may play a role.  For the US archive, LANG is set to POSIX
> while for the UK archive, it is set to en_US.

Changing LANG resource made no difference.

> Also, you have POSIXSTRFTIME enabled.  I am guessing that this
> along with LANG could be causing the problem, or it could
> just by your system's strftime().  It is possible that en_US
> could be skewing the system's strftime() behavior, or strftime()
> on your system is doing something itself.

Looks like strftime() on the UK system is the problem. I disabled 
POSIXSTRFTIME and I get the correct results. Any suggestions on what might 
be wrong with strftime()? I was hoping to use the system version so that I 
can use the %s (seconds since epoch) format in the date to create a 
timestamp.

Thanks for the help,
Mike

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