Finding Current time...

[perlone]

Hello,

I'm running a game site and I need to reset the server by finding the current Central Time. I used the following code, but this one only find the local time and it goes by your computer time:

my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);

I need to find Central Time. Anybody knows?

 

[bardley]

there's a time module on cpan that has a function called gmtime() (I think) that returns (what else) Greenwich Mean Time. Central time can be figured from that by subtracting from that the standard difference between GMT and Central. (I think it's eight hours, but that's probably not right.) Brad Gunsalus
Cymtec Systems, Inc.
bgunsalus@cymtec.com

 

[tsdragon]

if you use gmtime instead of localtime, it will give you the same values adjusted for GMT. Then you can adjust them to central time.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

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