Timezone manipulation within Perl script

[roman dot vasicek at email dot cz]

Hi all,
I want to ask you how convert time between different timezones in perl script running under cygwin. I have an application which store datetime information in Zulu/GMT. I need to provide date in user timezone. How to do the correct conversion? I want to be able to offer Timezone info like 'Europe/Prague'. Following code snippet will provide correct output when running under Active state Perl (time will differ 1 or 2 hours depending on input date), but when running under cygwin perl no conversion will be done. Can anyone help me?

        $ENV{TZ}    = 'Zulu';
        POSIX::tzset();
        $time       = timegm($second, $minute, $hour, $day, $month, $year);

        $ENV{TZ}    = 'Europe/Prague';
        POSIX::tzset();
        ($second, $minute, $hour, $day, $month, $year)   = POSIX::localtime($time);

Attached program will produce under ActiveState PERL

 Winter (delta should be +1 h)
 ZULU : 2007-12-13 11:47:02 Zulu
 LOCAL: 2007-12-13 12:47:02 Europe/Prague

 Summer (delta should be +2 h)
 ZULU : 2007-06-13 11:47:02 Zulu
 LOCAL: 2007-06-13 13:47:02 Europe/Prague

and under CygWin PERL output will be

 Winter (delta should be +1 h)
 ZULU : 2007-12-13 11:47:02 Zulu
 LOCAL: 2007-12-13 11:47:02 Europe/Prague

 Summer (delta should be +2 h)
 ZULU : 2007-06-13 11:47:02 Zulu
 LOCAL: 2007-06-13 11:47:02 Europe/Prague


Best Regards,
Roman

Attachment: test-1.pl
Description: Perl program

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