Matthew wrote: >I see all the Etc/GMT+X inside my /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/ so what's up?
DateTime::TimeZone doesn't look in /usr/share/zoneinfo. It has its own version of the zoneinfo database, in the form of Perl modules, but it doesn't include the Etc pseudo-zones. >Are the Etc/GMT+X the proper "generic" time zones to use if your >country/region isn't specified? Sort of. Not quite. If your timezone isn't in the database, you should mail the database maintainers to get it added. If you want to use a fixed offset from GMT/UTC/UT/whatever as your timezone, Etc/GMT+X is the hack to use in the zoneinfo database, but DateTime::TimeZone has a better mechanism for this. To get 5 hours behind UT, which is what Etc/GMT+5 does, pass in the timezone name "-05:00". Note the change of sign: for historical reasons the signs in the Etc/GMT+X names are the opposite of the actual offset. -zefram
