Hi guys,

Surprisingly, I found that Perl DateTime module gives wrong Israel Tel Aviv time. Israel day light saving time started last Sunday (3/27/2016), but DateTime module still gives the old time, which is one hour behind the correct time. Double checked my linux machine, the zoned time is correct. So this is Perl issue.

use DateTime;
my $epoch = time();
my $date_time = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $epoch);
$date_time->set_time_zone('Asia/Tel_Aviv');
print $date_time;

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The above code prints wrong time with 1 hour lag. Anyone has any idea what causes the error and who I should report this error to?

Thanks,

Fei

====Update====

Turns out I need to update my DateTime module. The current version I'm using is out of date

In reply to Perl CPAN module DateTime gives wrong Israel time by feiiiiiiiiiii

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