Date::Manip, how to view available TZ

jeanluca has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks

I'm writing a tool to convert dates. Something that would be nice is to allow input dates from differen timezones. So I would like to enable the user to define one. Is there a function that shows the available abbreviation and maybe also the full name of the TZs (or something like that) ?

Thanks a lot
Luca

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Re: Date::Manip, how to view available TZ by salva (Canon) on Feb 14, 2006 at 12:53 UTC
Date::Manip is not your best option for converting times between different timezones as it doesn't support daylight savings offsets. Try DateTime and DateTime::TimeZone that BTW, exports a function to get the names of all the available TZs: `DateTime::TimeZone::all_names()`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Date::Manip, how to view available TZ by jeanluca (Deacon) on Feb 14, 2006 at 13:42 UTC
Thnx a lot. Is it possible to make a list like: `Europe Amsterdam (CET) etc Africa ..` [download] So far I can: `my @cat = DateTime::TimeZone::categories() ; foreach (@cat) { my @b = DateTime::TimeZone::names_in_category( $_ ) ; print "$_:\n" ; foreach (@b) { print " $_\n" ; } etc ; }` [download] How do I convert something like Africa/Abidjan to a short name abbreviation ? Luca	[reply] [d/l] [select]