Re: DateTime and Etc timezones

2016-06-26 Thread Rick Measham
> I don't understand [why] it is not already in the DateTime module Because it doesn't make a lot of sense. GMT+6 doesn't allow for daylight savings changes and any other historic changes. it requires your users to come to the site twice a year to adjust their time zone. Instead you should

Re: DateTime and Etc timezones

2016-06-26 Thread Steve James
Thanks for your reply. I just edited my timezone.txt file (attached) that the code uses as the "guts" for the timezones select. The change seems to be working ok, but still keeping my fingers crossed... My only point is, though, that since this such a simple thing, I don't understand what it is

Re: DateTime and Etc timezones

2016-06-26 Thread Steve James
Thanks for your reply. My users select a timezone from a list. I do not think that +0600 will be as clear as Etc/GMT+6, so it looks like I am going to have to do a workaround for this. ;-( I think I can maybe store +0600 but show Etc/GMT+6 to the user (via an HTML select), but I will have to

Re: DateTime and Etc timezones

2016-06-26 Thread Eric Brine
It does, however, support "+" and "-". $ perl -MDateTime -E'DateTime->today(time_zone => "+0600"); say "ok"' ok On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Steve James <4steveja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am the principal developer for the FreeToastHost website system, a free > website provider,

DateTime and Etc timezones

2016-06-26 Thread Steve James
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