MST time Zone

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

I'm having a problem parsing a time zone with the DateTime module.

                my $start_dt = DateTime->new(
                    year       => $start_year,
                    month      => $start_month,
                    day        => $start_day,
                    hour       => $start_hour,
                    minute     => $start_minute,
                    second     => $start_second,
                    nanosecond => 000000000,
                    time_zone  => "$start_tz"
                );
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the $start_tz variable is parsed out of a record, and contains the old formatting for TZs. CST6CDT, PST8PDT, etc..etc.. however it is choking on MST7 with the error: "Invalid offset: MST7" Seems to process other timezones fine.

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Re: MST time Zone by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 08, 2010 at 16:59 UTC
`>perl -MDateTime::TimeZone -le"print for DateTime::TimeZone->all_names +" ... CET CST6CDT EST EST5EDT ... HST ... MST MST7MDT PST8PDT ...` [download] You could create a lookup table (hash) to convert from the strings you have to the strings DT wants.	[reply] [d/l]