Comment 4 for bug 347303

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:04:31PM -0000, Steve Peters wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Launchpad Bug Tracker
> <email address hidden> wrote:

> > perl -e 'use POSIX;
> > $ENV{TZ} = "UTC";
> > my $time = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z", localtime(time));
> > print "$time\n";
> > $ENV{TZ} = "US/Eastern";
> > my $time = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z", localtime(time));
> > print "$time\n";'
> >
> > You should get two different times.
> >
> > 2009-03-23 14:15:13 UTC
> > 2009-03-23 10:15:13 EDT

> I can confirm that the Perl distributed with Ubuntu 8.04 has problems.
> This problem, however, appears to be a bug in the Debian/Ubuntu perl.
> I just built the original Perl 5.8.8 and everything worked fine.
> This problem is caused by some Debian/Ubuntu applied patch.

Did you build a threaded version?

This seems to be

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=172396
 http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=26136

fixed with

 http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8572b25d

in 5.8.9 and 5.10.0.
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Niko Tyni <email address hidden>