Bug 558500

Summary:	app-portage/genlop-0.30.10-r1: fails to run if timezone not set well enough
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	perl
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.