On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Rick Measham wrote: > At 9:36 PM +0100 30/3/03, Richard Smith wrote: > >I'm having some issues with DateTime and DateTime::Timezone. When > >creating a timezone object with the timezone of Europe/London it > >doesn't seem to think we're in DST, but we are, as of 1am this > >morning. Anything else I've tried to do with it seems fine (the > >offsets are correct for each zone), but that's throwing all my stuff > >out by and hour (I'm just called is_dst to check whether we are or > >not and it's returning 0). > > This makes me think .. should there be a way to 'force' a DST change? > For example: > $dst_on = DateTime->new([1am this morning]); > > $dt = DateTime->new(year=>xxxx, month=>xx, day=>xx, > timezone=>'Europe/London', dst_on=>$dst_on, dst_off=>$dst_off);
This is much more complicated than you think, and the API would be nasty. I don't think it's worth the trouble. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/
