use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use DateTime;
use Time::ParseDate;
use DateTime::TimeZone;

our %TIMEZONES = (
    # DST
    '-3.5Y' => 'America/St_Johns',
    '-4Y'   => 'America/Halifax',
    '-5Y'   => 'America/New_York',
    '-6Y'   => 'America/Chicago',
    '-7Y'   => 'America/Denver',
    '-8Y'   => 'America/Los_Angeles',
    '-9Y'   => 'America/Anchorage',
    '-10Y'  => 'America/Adak',

    # NOT DST
    '-11N' => 'Pacific/Midway',
    '-10N' => 'Pacific/Honolulu',
    '-8N'  => 'Pacific/Pitcairn',
    '-7N'  => 'America/Phoenix',
    '-6N'  => 'America/Managua',
    '-4N'  => 'America/St_Vincent',
    '0N'   => 'America/Danmarkshavn',
    '9N'   => 'Pacific/Palau',
    '10N'  => 'Pacific/Truk',
    '11N'  => 'Pacific/Efate',
    '12N'  => 'Pacific/Wallis',
);

sub timezone {
    my ($utc_offset,$is_dst) = @_;
    return DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => $TIMEZONES{$utc_offset . $is_dst} );
}

my $input = '11:50:45.242 EDT OCT 27 2015';
my $epoch = parsedate( $input );
my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch( epoch => $epoch );
$dt->set_time_zone( timezone( 0, 'N' ) );
print $dt->strftime( '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' ), $/;

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$dt->set_time_zone( timezone( 0, 'N' ) );

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$dt->set_time_zone( timezone( -5, 'Y' ) ); # Central with DST
$dt->set_time_zone( timezone( -6, 'N' ) ); # Eastern without DST
$dt->set_time_zone( timezone( -6, 'Y' ) ); # Eastern with DST

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