Per demands[1] to get the list of available timezones from
$country_code, I created a simple module
DateTime::TimeZone::FromCountry, available at:
http://svn.bulknews.net/repos/public/DateTime-TimeZone-FromCountry/trunk/
What this module does is very simple:
use DateTime::TimeZone;
use DateTime::TimeZone::FromCountry;
my $time_zone = DateTime::TimeZone->from_country('JP'); #
Asia/Tokyo
my @time_zone = DateTime::TimeZone->from_country('US'); #
List of possible TZs
my $time_zone = DateTime::TimeZone->from_country('United States'); #
America/New_York
the actual mapping data (from country to available timezones) is
created using 'zone.tab' file in the Olson database.
Dave: Do you think it's OK to upload this module to CPAN? Or, should
it be part of DateTime::TimeZone module itself?
I guess this module might have to be synchronized to
DateTime::TimeZone anyway as Olson gets updated, so including it as
part of DT::TZ would be nice.
[1] See http://use.perl.org/~miyagawa/journal/31310 for the motivation
and probable use case of this module.
--
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
