#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use DateTime; use Try::Tiny; my $occuranceTime = "00:02:00"; my $occuranceDate = "03/13/2016"; my ($recordSec, $recordHour, $recordMin) = split ':', $occuranceTime; my ($recordMonth, $recordDate, $recordYear) = split '/', $occuranceDate; my $recordOnPST = try { DateTime->new( year => $recordYear, month => $recordMonth, day => $recordDate, hour => $recordHour, minute => $recordMin, second => $recordSec, time_zone => 'America/Los_Angeles' ); } catch { if ( /^Invalid local time for date in time zone/ and $recordMonth == 3 and $recordHour == 2 ) { warn "Looks like invalid DST timestamp\n"; return DateTime->new( year => $recordYear, month => $recordMonth, day => $recordDate, hour => $recordHour +1, minute => $recordMin, second => $recordSec, time_zone => 'America/Los_Angeles' ); } else { die $_; # try to rethrow other exception } return undef; # in case you don't want to return adjusted time }; if ($recordOnPST) { my $recordOnUTC = $recordOnPST -> clone -> set_time_zone('UTC'); print "$recordOnPST \n"; print "$recordOnUTC \n"; }