Re: Daylight savings time timezone conversion automatically?

William Heath wrote:
> The
> trouble is I need to find the GMT offset for a timezone and I don't
> know how to do this correctly for daylight saving time. 

my $dt = new DateTime(
	year => 2008,
	month => 3,
	day   => 12,
	hour  => 16,
	time_zone => 'Australia/Melbourne'
);

print $dt->offset; # in seconds
# 39600

printf( "%s%02d%02d",
	$dt->offset >= 0 ? '+' : '-',
	int($dt->offset / 60 / 60),
	($dt->offset / 60) % 60
);
# +1100
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