On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:49:38AM -0000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> =head1 NOTES ON FREEZE
>
> Everyone felt pretty good about this, I think. The only thing we'd all
> probably like to see is one single C<date> function, but unfortunately
> dealing with timezone specifications is an extraordinarily difficult
> issue.
I still think one of the options to the C<date()> routine could be the
offset from UTC or a code ref to a subroutine that can determine the
offset given the current UTC. That way the user could specify what
localtime means (even if it doesn't really mean local time ;-).
And, in order to make this scenario more useful, as part of the standard
Perl distribution we would have a module that defines constants for all
of the "common" timezones.
$t1 = date(offset => -6 * 60 * 60); # offset in seconds (CST)
$t2 = date(offset => -5 * 60 * 60); # offset in seconds (CDT)
$t3 = date(offset => \&offsetsub); # UTC passed as first
# parameter to offsetsub()
use Timezones;
$t4 = date(offset => CST6CDT); # US/Central
$t5 = date(offset => \&zone('US/Central')); # US/Central
(made up syntax, of course)
-Scott
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