Re^3: Converting local time to UTC mystery

I would need to find out how much I am away from UTC.

...which changes during the year, making it that much more difficult. Yeah, hardcoding offsets is not the way to go.

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Re^4: Converting local time to UTC mystery by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 06, 2011 at 00:48 UTC
That said, `'+0200'` can be replaced with `'local'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Converting local time to UTC mystery by rovf (Priest) on Sep 06, 2011 at 09:10 UTC
Indeed this works, thanks a lot!!! I wonder, where this is documented... For completeness, here the working function call: `my $seconds_since_epoch=str2time($timestamp_local, 'local');` [download] -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Converting local time to UTC mystery by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 06, 2011 at 15:48 UTC
«The time_zone parameter can be either a scalar or a `DateTime::TimeZone` object. A string will simply be passed to the `DateTime::TimeZone->new` method as its "name" parameter. This string may be an Olson DB time zone name ("America/Chicago"), an offset string ("+0630"), or the words "floating" or "local". See the `DateTime::TimeZone` documentation for more details.»	[reply] [d/l] [select]