Getting a named DateTime::TimeZone from an offset
[email protected] ("Randy J. Ray")
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I would suspect this is probably a reasonably-FAQ, but I couldn't find the answer via Google or the datetime wiki... When I parse a ISO 8601 date (used a lot in XML Schema, RPC-XML traffic, etc.), I get a the timezone as a DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetOnly object. But I'd really like the "real" timezone, the one I can get a name or a short-name for. It seems to me that I *should* be able to do this, given an offset and a flag as to whether the date/time I'm working with is DST or not. But I cannot puzzle it out. The best guess I've come up with is to get the list of all timezones, and iterate through them comparing their offset values to the one I have (changing it, if necessary, if DST is in effect). Surely this is not the only way to do this? Randy -- """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.rjray.org [email protected] Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org