Perl CPAN module DateTime gives wrong Israel time

feiiiiiiiiiii has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi guys,

Surprisingly, I found that Perl DateTime module gives wrong Israel Tel Aviv time. Israel day light saving time started last Sunday (3/27/2016), but DateTime module still gives the old time, which is one hour behind the correct time. Double checked my linux machine, the zoned time is correct. So this is Perl issue.

use DateTime;
my $epoch = time();
my $date_time = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $epoch);
$date_time->set_time_zone('Asia/Tel_Aviv');
print $date_time;
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The above code prints wrong time with 1 hour lag. Anyone has any idea what causes the error and who I should report this error to?

Thanks,

Fei

====Update====

Turns out I need to update my DateTime module. The current version I'm using is out of date

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Re: Perl CPAN module DateTime gives wrong Israel time by beech (Parson) on Mar 30, 2016 at 02:59 UTC
Maybe you need to update DateTime::TimeZone http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/israel/tel-aviv says since mar 25 DST +1h, or UTC+3H instead of the regular UTC+2H, agrees with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time#Summer_Time_Dates DateTime is returning +3 for the timesone, so it is accurate `$ perl -MDateTime -le " print DateTime->now( qw[ time_zone Asia/Tel_Av +iv ] )->strftime( q/%F-%H:%M:%S%z/) " 2016-03-30-06:04:01+0300 $ perl -MDateTime -le " print DateTime->now( qw[ time_zone GMT ] )->st +rftime( q/%F-%H:%M:%S%z/) " 2016-03-30-03:05:58+0000` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl CPAN module DateTime gives wrong Israel time by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 29, 2016 at 21:23 UTC
Google and DateTime both give me the same time right now: DT -> `2016-03-30T00:22:05` Google -> `12:22 AM`. The guys who do DateTime take it extremely seriously. I couldn’t imagine an error this obvious creeping in.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl CPAN module DateTime gives wrong Israel time by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 30, 2016 at 02:40 UTC
Five hours later than Your Mother's reply but my test also shows agreement between bigG and the script you presented. Update: Same result at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/israel/tel-aviv which acknowledges that Daylight Savings in Tel Aviv began 25 Mar. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Juvenal, Satires	[reply]