Daisuke Maki wrote: > > I'm trying to set the default time zone for my DT::C::Chinese to the > Chinese standard time zone so that people don't accidentally use their > own time zones, only to get, for example, a Chinese new year date of Jan > 21 2004 (UTC) instead of the "official" Jan 22 2004. > > And I'm looking at the TimeZone catalog, and I realize there's no > DT::TimeZone::Asia::Beijing, which I thought was where they base Chinese > calendars. > > I see Hong Kong, I see Shanghai. Is one better suited over the other? Or > is there some other official time zone I should be using?
IIRC longitude 120 east is considered the "official dateline" for calculating Chinese New Year. h~
