time::timezone(3)
NAME
Time::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 manipula
tion routines.
"tz2zone()" parses the TZ environment variable and returns
a timezone string suitable for inclusion in date-like out
put. 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>