Time::Zone(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Time::Zone(3)
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>
perl v5.10.0 2002-09-16 Time::Zone(3)
Mac OS X 10.6 - Generated Thu Sep 17 20:17:08 CDT 2009