Hi. I want to take a given date, supplied as a text string in YYY-MM-DD format, and determine if it's >= the current day. I'm having trouble with the timezone handling. The strptime seems to return the result in gmtime. I'm using Time::Piece::Plus to get the current day, but that's in localtime. What's the simplest way to get them both in gmtime, since I really don't care about the time or timezones. Adding a timezone to the strptime format string seems ugly. 
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Piece::Plus;

my $today = Time::Piece::Plus->today;
my $date = Time::Piece::Plus->strptime("2015-04-20", '%Y-%m-%d');

print "Date: $date tzoffset=", $date->tzoffset, "\n";
print "Today: $today tzoffset=", $today->tzoffset, "\n";
print "Diff: ", ($date - $today), "\n";

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Output: 
Date: Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 2015 tzoffset=0
Today: Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 2015 tzoffset=-25200
Diff: -25200

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In reply to Ignoring timezones when comparing dates with Time::Piece by Anonymous Monk

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