> If you want to store a conventional initialism, then the timezone you're
> interested in is more than just an offset. DT:TZ:OffsetOnly is for
> when you Only want the Offset. A more appropriate way to do what you
> want would be a SysV-style timezone string "CST3". This represents
> a timezone that consists of a fixed offset plus an abbreviation.
> Try DateTime::TimeZone::SystemV->new("CST3").
I don't think this will work for my needs: my offsets aren't in the
same format. And, some of the abbreviations are less than 3 letters.
They abbr/offset database comes from Olson::Abbreviations.
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ECARROLL/Olson-Abbreviations-0.02/lib/Olson/Abbreviations.pm
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