> I don't understand [why] it is not already in the DateTime module
Because it doesn't make a lot of sense. GMT+6 doesn't allow for daylight
savings changes and any other historic changes. it requires your users
to come to the site twice a year to adjust their time zone.
Instead you should offer them the list of time zones that DateTime gets
from the Olson database. This is the library that every Linux
distribution that I'm aware of uses. Often either using a GUI map, or a
multi-step selection. Microsoft use a similar interface when selecting a
time zone, and I imagine Apple use the Olson database.
- Rick
On 2016-06-27 13:59, Steve James wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I just edited my timezone.txt file (attached)
that the code uses as the "guts" for the timezones select. The change
seems to be working ok, but still keeping my fingers crossed...
My only point is, though, that since this such a simple thing, I don't
understand what it is not already in the DateTime module. ;-(
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Eric Brine <ikeg...@adaelis.com
<mailto:ikeg...@adaelis.com>> wrote:
$timezone = sprintf("%+04d", $_*100) if $timezone =~ m{^Etc/GMT(.+)};
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Steve James
<4steveja...@gmail.com <mailto:4steveja...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for your reply.
My users select a timezone from a list. I do not think that
+0600 will be as clear as Etc/GMT+6, so it looks like I am
going to have to do a workaround for this. ;-(
I think I can maybe store +0600 but show Etc/GMT+6 to the user
(via an HTML select), but I will have to see...
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Eric Brine
<ikeg...@adaelis.com <mailto:ikeg...@adaelis.com>> wrote:
It does, however, support "+XXXX" and "-XXXX".
$ perl -MDateTime -E'DateTime->today(time_zone =>
"+0600"); say "ok"'
ok
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Steve James
<4steveja...@gmail.com <mailto:4steveja...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I am the principal developer for the FreeToastHost
website system, a free website provider, content
management system, and email list server used by over
10,000+ Toastmasters public speaking clubs worldwide.
Toastmasters is a non-profit and much of the labor to
support clubs is done on a volunteer basis.
FreeToastHost is an independent effort created by
Toastmasters club members from open source libraries
and via volunteer labor. (myself included)
FreeToastHost uses a number of your DateTime module
functions.
We have recently ran into an issue where it appears
that DateTime does not support "Etc/" style names for
timezones. (e.g. "Etc/GMT+6")
For example, the following produces an exception for
me when running in a plain vanilla test script:
my $today = DateTime->today(time_zone =>
'Etc/GMT+6');
Is there something I am missing or is this as intended?
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