I've tried "DateTime->now(timezone=>"EST5EDT") and it blows up with errors.

Probably because the argument is called time_zone, not timezone?

$ perl -wMstrict -MDateTime -le 'print DateTime->now->strftime("%Y-%m-
+%d %H:%M:%S %z")'
2023-03-31 13:08:16 +0000
$ perl -wMstrict -MDateTime -le 'print DateTime->now(time_zone=>"local
+")->strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z")'
2023-03-31 15:08:23 +0200
$ perl -wMstrict -MDateTime -le 'print DateTime->now(time_zone=>"EST5E
+DT")->strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z")'
2023-03-31 09:08:29 -0400
$ perl -wMstrict -MDateTime -le 'print DateTime->now(time_zone=>"Ameri
+ca/New_York")->strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z")'
2023-03-31 09:13:15 -0400
$ perl -wMstrict -MDateTime -le 'print DateTime->now(timezone=>"EST5ED
+T")->strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z")'
Found extra parameters passed to _check_named_from_epoch_params: [time
+zone]

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Update: In regards to local, see Determining the Local Time Zone Can Be Slow. Also, I would recommend to stay away from ambiguous time zone names like CST ("Central Standard Time", "China Standard Time", "Cuba Standard Time", ...) - correspondingly, I updated my examples above to use %z instead of %Z. Update 2: Added the America/New_York example as an alternative to EST5EDT, as noted on Wikipedia.

In reply to Re: Baffled by DateTime by haukex
in thread Baffled by DateTime by BernieC

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