You don't need the ->clone in there. The following should be sufficient:

$dhms = DateTime->new(
   ...,
   time_zone => 'Etc/UTC',
   formatter => $formatter,
);
$dhms->set_time_zone('America/New_York');

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Another possible speed up (though I don't think it's likely to make much difference) is to move the timezone lookup outside the loop:

my $formatter = ...;
my $utc = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => "Etc/UTC");
my $nyc = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name => "America/New_York");

while (<>) {
   ...;
   $dhms = DateTime->new(
      ...,
      time_zone => $utc,
      formatter => $formatter,
   );
   $dhms->set_time_zone($nyc);
}

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In reply to Re: DateTime speed improvement - suggestion by tobyink
in thread DateTime speed improvement - suggestion by ler224

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