On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Kevin McGrath <kmcgr...@baknet.com> wrote: > Here is my situation. I use the Rose Framework as my ORM under mod_perl, > fast_cgi, and server_side scripts. I have the framework set up to use UTC > to store all datetimes. I do all work in my controllers in UTC time. The > majority of the time I need a datetime to be converted to a specific > time_zone is when it is being displayed to a user. > > Doing the work in parse_datetime does not work for me. In fact I almost > never call parse_datetime directly and when I do it's to get the datetime > passed in from a form into UTC. I need/want the time_zone conversion to > also happen within the format_datetime function when necessary. > > The idea is that I should be able to have 1 datetime object that has already > be created in UTC and easily show that same datetime object to multiple > users in the pattern and time_zone they prefer.
It is an interesting idea, but the traditional DateTime::Format convention for format_datetime does not include timezone math already done through $dt->set_time_zone( $tz ). If you had a variable output pattern dependent on the timezone I could see the need, it is very easily done too using DateTimeX::Format my $dt = parse_datetime( ... ); $dt->set_time_zone( $tz ); format_datetime($dt); -- Evan Carroll System Lord of the Internets
