Rick Measham wrote:
>my $riyadh_lmt = DateTime::TimeZone::LMT->new(
>    longitude => 46 + (43 / 60) + (27 / 3600)
>);

How much error in time conversions is introduced by the floating point
rounding?

>A thought: it might be good to somehow include the ability to load other 
>TZ modules from a string. Eg. time_zone => "LMT/46d43m27s" would look 
>for LMT/46d43m27s.pm and failing that, drop back to looking for LMT.pm 
>and pass it's constructor the '46d43m27s'.

I'd say don't do that with "/", which should be reserved for hierarchical
naming.  Maybe parens, though.  But you don't need it for LMT if the
generic offset capability is implemented: you can always do LMT as a
"UT1+..." spec.

-zefram

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