crap wrote:
>For the life of me I cannot figure this out. I am trying to look up the
>timezone based off an hour offset. Is there a way to do this with
>DateTime::TimeZone?
If you want a timezone that is just a fixed hour offset, then just do
$tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new->new(name => "-0400");
That's a timezone that's permanently four hours behind UT.
But I suspect that what you actually want is to put in "-0400" and get
back one of the civil timezones, with DST rules, that happens to be at
UT-4h currently. There are several of these, such as America/New_York
and America/Cuiaba, so at best you'd expect to get a list of matching
timezones. The timezones aren't indexed in this way, so you'd have to
iterate through the lot checking each. DateTime::TimeZone->all_names
provides the list that you'll need to check through.
-zefram
