558500 – app-portage/genlop-0.30.10-r1: fails to run if timezone not set well enough

Bug 558500 - app-portage/genlop-0.30.10-r1: fails to run if timezone not set well enough

Summary: app-portage/genlop-0.30.10-r1: fails to run if timezone not set well enough

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2015-08-23 18:06 UTC by Patrick Lauer
Modified:	2016-03-17 18:33 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2015-08-23 18:06:07 UTC

# genlop -t chromium
ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine Time Zone.
ERROR LOADING MODULE: Date::Manip::DM6 at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22.0/Date/Manip.pm line 35.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/genlop line 28.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/genlop line 28.

Comment 1 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-17 18:33:05 UTC

All I can say is set your time zone.  From the Date::Manip documentation:

When using Date::Manip, when the module is initialized, it must be able to determine the local time zone. If it fails to do so, an error will occur

Note, the word must in that statement.