Re: Where's the official time zone for China?
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. Should the end result be converted to a floating time zone once you're through with calculations? That way it can be adapted to whatever local timezone the user is in: midnight Jan 22 2004 will be converted to local timezones during date math. (right?) Matt
Re: Where's the official time zone for China?
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~
Where's the official time zone for China?
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? --d
