On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Ewald Beekman wrote:
I never knew about the "clone" method and "is_dst" on itself is not available
as method inside DateTime::TimeZone
That's cause a timezone is a description of a historical set of changes
("-0700 until X date"). Without that date, it can't know if DST i
CAUTION: Adding half a year would be prone to error near the "time
change" dates. 2:01 am 6 months from now might not even exist if that
date is "spring forward" day.
It's unlikely that you'd ever need to, but If you ever had to, make
sure you use a mid summer date like July 1, or mid wint
Great! That does the trick.
I never knew about the "clone" method and "is_dst" on itself is not available
as method inside DateTime::TimeZone
but together it's excactly what i need.
thanks very much.
Ewald...
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:01:03PM -0700, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Ewald Beekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to see if DST is in effect on a
> returned time zone object ?
> For instance, i have got a loop like this:
>
> my @list = DateTime::TimeZone->all_names;
> foreach $zone (@list) {
> next unless ($
Is there a way to see if DST is in effect on a
returned time zone object ?
For instance, i have got a loop like this:
my @list = DateTime::TimeZone->all_names;
foreach $zone (@list) {
next unless ($zone =~ /\//);# skip timezone links
in the list
$dt = DateTime-
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Rick Measham wrote:
William Heath wrote:
I think I figured it out, what is important to understand is that you
can't choose EST, you must choose a country/city for the function to
adjust for DST automatically. My question was probably too simple for
you to give me this sol
William Heath wrote:
I think I figured it out, what is important to understand is that you
can't choose EST, you must choose a country/city for the function to
adjust for DST automatically. My question was probably too simple for
you to give me this solution but I did figure it out. Does that m
Thanks All,
I think I figured it out, what is important to understand is that you
can't choose EST, you must choose a country/city for the function to
adjust for DST automatically. My question was probably too simple for
you to give me this solution but I did figure it out. Does that make
sense
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Rick Measham wrote:
printf( "%s%02d%02d",
$dt->offset >= 0 ? '+' : '-',
int($dt->offset / 60 / 60),
($dt->offset / 60) % 60
);
or better yet ...
print DateTime::TimeZone->offset_as_string($offset)
-dave
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William Heath wrote:
The
trouble is I need to find the GMT offset for a timezone and I don't
know how to do this correctly for daylight saving time.
my $dt = new DateTime(
year => 2008,
month => 3,
day => 12,
hour => 16,
time_zone => 'Australia/Melbou
Hello All,
I love perl and am grateful to have DateTime::TimeZone! The
trouble is I need to find the GMT offset for a timezone and I don't
know how to do this correctly for daylight saving time. Is there no
way to find this GMT offset automatically or do I have to manually
check the date, see if
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