Hi haukex,

Your suggestion is quite correct and a much more complete treatment of the problem (as is your way!).

My choice of using the string was intended to show precisely that since the provided input data lacked any TZ (and %Z returns the literal string "floating" in that case), no meaningful TZ info could be provided by the DateTime object, so you'd have to just add it as a string. Of course I didn't explain any of that :(

If, as is I guess most likely, the OP has datetimes lacking a TZ, and is himself located in Eastern Time Zone, his TZ will shift during the year, so while it may be EST today it could be EDT in six months. I think the best of all in his case may be to add the time_zone param in the constructor as you say, but provide the value "local". 

nick@vagrant$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -ML -E'
say DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(pattern => "%F  %T", time_zone => 
+"local")->
    parse_datetime("2008-11-03  19:03:44")->
    strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %T %Z");
'
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:03:44 EST

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In reply to Re^3: Converting dates with Date:Format by 1nickt
in thread Converting dates with Date:Format by ultranerds

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