Zefram wrote:
> Matthew wrote:
>> Hehe. I'm the DBA. And I've updated everything to most recent stuff,
>>but the boss man wants "generic time zones" in our list "just in case" a
>>customer can't find his or doesn't realize his city is listed differently.
>
> Unlikely to ever occur. As far as
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Zefram wrote:
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 pseu
Or use DateTime::TimeZone::Alias [1]
(untested code follows)
use DateTime::TimeZone::Alias
for my $hr in (0 .. 12) {
DateTime::TimeZone::Alias->set("Etc/GMT+$hr", "-${hr}:00");
DateTime::TimeZone::Alias->set("Etc/GMT-$hr", "+${hr}:00");
}
# And don't forget the 15 minute offsets a
Matthew wrote:
> Hehe. I'm the DBA. And I've updated everything to most recent stuff,
>but the boss man wants "generic time zones" in our list "just in case" a
>customer can't find his or doesn't realize his city is listed differently.
Unlikely to ever occur. As far as anyone knows, the O
Thanks Zefram,
> Note the change of sign: for historical reasons the signs in
> the Etc/GMT+X names are the opposite of the actual offset.
Wow. Yea, that caused me quite a headache. I didn't realize that. Spent
forever trying to figure out why GMT+5 kept subtracting hours.
> but it doesn't i
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 prope
yea..missing the body..sheesh
my $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2007, hour => 9,
time_zone => "Etc/GMT+5"
);
The timezone 'Etc/GMT+5' in an invalid name.
??
I see all the Etc/GMT+X inside my /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/ so what's up?
Are the Etc/GMT+X the pr
