in reply to Date::Manip, how to view available TZ

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()

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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
   ..

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    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 ;
}

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    How do I convert something like Africa/Abidjan to a short name abbreviation ?

    Luca
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