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From:
Jonathan Scott Duff
Date:
January 31, 2003 12:49
Subject:
Re: Changing time zones?
Message ID:
20030131144900.B7580@cbi.tamucc.edu
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:44:55AM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> If I do this:
>
> # UTC time
> my $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2000, month => 5, day => 6,
> hour => 7, minute => 15, time_zone => 0 );
>
> print $dt->hour; # prints 7
>
> $dt->set( time_zone => 'America/Chicago' );
>
> print $dt->hour; # prints 1 or 7?
>
>
> In other words, does setting the time zone cause us to recalculate local
> time based on the current UTC (prints 1), or does it cause us to
> recalculate UTC based on the local time (prints 7).
>
> I lean towards the former, but we might need both.
recalc local. always.
If we need both, then there should be another different mechanism for
the latter.
-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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