Time::Zone - miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  AUTHORS 

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NAME

Time::Zone −− miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines

SYNOPSIS

use Time::Zone;
print tz2zone();
print tz2zone($ENV{'TZ'});
print tz2zone($ENV{'TZ'}, time());
print tz2zone($ENV{'TZ'}, undef, $isdst);
$offset = tz_local_offset();
$offset = tz_offset($TZ);

DESCRIPTION

This is a collection of miscellaneous timezone manipulation routines.

tz2zone() parses the TZ environment variable and returns a timezone string suitable for inclusion in date(1)−like output. It opionally takes a timezone string, a time, and a is-dst flag.

tz_local_offset() determins the offset from GMT time in seconds. It only does the calculation once.

tz_offset() determines the offset from GMT in seconds of a specified timezone.

tz_name() determines the name of the timezone based on its offset

AUTHORS

Graham Barr <[email protected]> David Muir Sharnoff <[email protected]> Paul Foley <[email protected]>

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