I have a set of time stamps that are set in UTC. Here is a small example:

2011-08-09 03:33:11
2011-07-09 00:27:23
2011-07-25 22:24:08

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I need to convert these to my systems local time. So I need to first acquire the local time zone, then convert the above values from UTC to whatever is revealed from finding out the system time zone.

I have tried using DateTime. I have a simple script written that does "stuff", but not what I need.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use DateTime;

my $dt = DateTime->now(time_zone => 'America/North_Dakota/Center');
#$dt->set_time_zone('Europe/Guernsey');
my $time = $dt->strftime('%F %T');
print "$time\n";

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What this this does is prints the local time:

2011-11-10 10:58:00

What is the best method to convert $utctime (2011-08-09 03:33:11) to a local time zone based on what time zone if found out by acquiring the system timezone, converting it to (2011-08-08 22:33:11)? This should be the safest way to avoid the whole daylight savings time issue.? The above script doesn't do it, but I think it's a good start.

In reply to time stamp store in $utctime needs converting to local time zone by TheBigAmbulance

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