<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If I'm understanding your situation correctly, you should be able to join the date and time strings with a space, then pass the combined string into parse_datetime().<div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Mark Schoonover wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Thanks Chris. The problem I'm having is creating the $string to begin with. I've been banging my head on this all day today reading cpan, so it's probably something very obvious I'm now too toasted to see... This does look like what I'll need to do.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 1, 2008 3:57 PM, Chris Radcliff <<a href="mailto:chris_radcliff@mac.com">chris_radcliff@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Mark,<br><br>There may be a DateTime formatter module that includes your particular<br>format. For example:<br><br><a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Eschubiger/DateTime-Format-Natural-0.66/lib/DateTime/Format/Natural.pm" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/~schubiger/DateTime-Format-Natural-0.66/lib/DateTime/Format/Natural.pm</a><br> <br>There are many to choose from, so you might want to try a few and see<br>which one does the best (and possibly fastest) job. Each one will let<br>you go straight from a string to a DateTime object:<br><br>my $parser = DateTime::Format::Natural->new();<br> my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime($date_string);<br><br>...and from there you can use DateTime functions as you described.<br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Cheers,<br><font color="#888888">~chris<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <br>On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Mark Schoonover wrote:<br><br>> Good Afternoon PMs!<br>><br>> I'm trying to convert from UTC to various US timezones. The time<br>> data is recorded in UTC in a CSV file. What I need to do is convert<br> > that time to the correct US timezone, plus keep in my daylight<br>> savings time. I've looked at DateTime, and it will do what I need,<br>> but I'm missing something basic. My time is not broken out by hms<br> > seperately, but instead is recorded 00:00 in one field, and mm/dd/<br>> yyyy in another. I've played around with DateTime, which has an<br>> is_dst method, but I have no idea how to put the date and time into<br> > the correct format, and have it create a DateTime object so I can<br>> convert to the correct timezone.<br>><br>> Any ideas?<br>><br>> TIA<br>><br>> --<br>> Mark Schoonover, CMDBA<br></div></div> </blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>