Time::Zone.3pm

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Version: 2007-09-21 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

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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-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 <gbarr@pobox.com> David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com>