Re: DateTime and Etc timezones

It does, however, support "+XXXX" and "-XXXX".

$ perl -MDateTime -E'DateTime->today(time_zone => "+0600"); say "ok"'
ok


On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Steve James <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am the principal developer for the FreeToastHost website system, a free
> website provider, content management system, and email list server used by over
> 10,000+ Toastmasters public speaking clubs worldwide.  Toastmasters is a
> non-profit and much of the labor to support clubs is done on a volunteer
> basis.  FreeToastHost is an independent effort created by Toastmasters club
> members from open source libraries and via volunteer labor.  (myself
> included) FreeToastHost uses a number of your DateTime module functions.
>
> We have recently ran into an issue where it appears that DateTime does not
> support "Etc/" style names for timezones.  (e.g. "Etc/GMT+6")
>
> For example, the following produces an exception for me when running in a
> plain vanilla test script:
>
>>       my $today = DateTime->today(time_zone => 'Etc/GMT+6');
>
>
> Is there something I am missing or is this as intended?
>
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