Time Zone Conversions

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

I have a number of activities that are timestamped by my server. When these times are displayed to users in different timezones, they get a little confused.

What I'd like to do is have a preference setting where users can pick their timezone, and then I would have a function for massaging the dates based on timezone, time of year (DST and all), etc.

What I am looking for is a definitive list of timezones, and a perl module that can handle the date arithmetic, including daylight savings time consideration.

Comment on Time Zone Conversions

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Re: Time Zone Conversions by knight (Friar) on Feb 13, 2001 at 00:51 UTC
Check out Time::Timezone from CPAN for manipulation routines based on the TZ environment variable.	[reply]
(ichimunki) re: Time Zone Conversions by ichimunki (Priest) on Feb 13, 2001 at 00:54 UTC
The modules you seek are likely to be named Date::Manip and DateTime::Precise. Both look to be farther along this path than anything else on CPAN. Update With the exception of Time::Timezone as noted by knight.	[reply]