On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Alfie John wrote:

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote:
On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Alfie John wrote:
Does any sane software actually use these ancient time zone names?

The only useful thing to do is use a zone like America/Chicago so you get
DST transitions and such. If you want a DST-less zone that's simple to
understand, you should use UTC, not some fixed offset from UTC (which
will
very confusingsly match up with different local time zones as DST comes
and goes in various places).

I planned on using them as a fallback when the Olson equivalent could
not be found.

You might as well just pass an offset directly to DateTime:

  # This is UTC-10
  DateTime->new( ..., time_zone => '-1000' );


-dave

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