I'm still trying to finish up DateTimeX::TimeZone, so I've got a question.. I'm looking to store the Olson abbreviation name in DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetOnly because it is not easily 1:1.
So I'm looking for a syntax like: my $offset_tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => 'CST', offset => '-0300' ); But because name is already associated with offset, I'm proposing this become an accepted syntax my $offset_tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => '-0300', abbreviation => 'CST' ); $offset_tz->abbreviation; DateTime::TimeZone is a factory for DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetOnly in the above. OffsetOnly objects should provide for the storage of the abbreviation and make it accessible with method call. I need this functionality to implement %Z in Strptime. Using MooseX::Types::DateTime::ButMaintained a value of CEST would coerce to the right OffsetOnly, but it would lose the abbreviation it was rendered with because Moose types don't support retrieving the pre-coerced value. Would a patch that stores the abbreviation in OffsetOnly and patches the DateTime constructor to accommodate it be acceptable? -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets
