Time::Timezone(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Time::Timezone(3)NAMETime::Timezone-- miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines
SYNOPSIS
use Time::Timezone;
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 <bodg@tiuk.ti.com> David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com>
LICENSE
David Muir Sharnoff disclaims any copyright and puts his contribution
to this module in the public domain.
perl v5.10.1 2006-08-15 Time::Timezone(3)