> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Rolsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:04 AM > To: datetime > Subject: RE: Daylight Saving > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate) wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 10:26 AM > >> To: datetime@perl.org > >> Subject: Daylight Saving > >> > >> I have a zipcode table that lists the city, state, timezone offset > >> (eg > >> -5) and a flag indicating if the location uses daylight saving time
> >> for U.S. zipcodes. I don't have the Olson name in the table. > >> > >> How do I set the timezone in this case -- taking into account the dst > >> settings? > > > > It looks like DateTime::TimeZone doesn't support offsets with DST. > > Well, how does it know when the DST switch happens except through some > sort of defined set of rules? I wouldn't expect it to. The Glibc tzset(3) manpage explains how one can specify an offset+dst+rules in the TZ env variable. Perhaps that functionality could be added to DateTime::TimeZone at some point? Philip
