Re: DateTime::TimeZone and etcetera zones

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Alfie John wrote:
> Does any sane software actually use these ancient time zone names?
> 
> The only useful thing to do is use a zone like America/Chicago so you get 
> DST transitions and such. If you want a DST-less zone that's simple to 
> understand, you should use UTC, not some fixed offset from UTC (which
> will 
> very confusingsly match up with different local time zones as DST comes 
> and goes in various places).

I planned on using them as a fallback when the Olson equivalent could
not be found.

Alfie

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