>>>>> "G" == Guy N Hurst <gnhurst / hurstlinks.com> writes:

G> ruby 1.6.0 (2000-09-19) [i686-linux-libc1]

 Can you verify if HAVE_TM_ZONE is defined for you ?

pigeon% grep HAVE_TM_ZONE *.h
config.h:#define HAVE_TM_ZONE 1
pigeon% 

pigeon% ruby -ve 'p Time.local(1997,12,31,23,59,60)'
ruby 1.6.0 (2000-09-19) [i686-linux]
Thu Jan 01 23:00:00 CET 1998
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux