Re: DateTime::TimeZone and etcetera zones

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Alfie John wrote:

> 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.

You might as well just pass an offset directly to DateTime:

   # This is UTC-10
   DateTime->new( ..., time_zone => '-1000' );


-dave

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