[San-Diego-pm] Converting Time from UTC

[Chris Radcliff]

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().

On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Mark Schoonover wrote:

> 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.
>
> On Feb 1, 2008 3:57 PM, Chris Radcliff <chris_radcliff at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> There may be a DateTime formatter module that includes your particular
> format. For example:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~schubiger/DateTime-Format-Natural-0.66/lib/DateTime/Format/Natural.pm
>
> There are many to choose from, so you might want to try a few and see
> which one does the best (and possibly fastest) job. Each one will let
> you go straight from a string to a DateTime object:
>
> my $parser = DateTime::Format::Natural->new();
> my $dt = $parser->parse_datetime($date_string);
>
> ...and from there you can use DateTime functions as you described.
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> ~chris
>
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Mark Schoonover wrote:
>
> > Good Afternoon PMs!
> >
> > I'm trying to convert from UTC to various US timezones. The time
> > data is recorded in UTC in a CSV file. What I need to do is convert
> > that time to the correct US timezone, plus keep in my daylight
> > savings time. I've looked at DateTime, and it will do what I need,
> > but I'm missing something basic. My time is not broken out by hms
> > seperately, but instead is recorded 00:00 in one field, and mm/dd/
> > yyyy in another. I've played around with DateTime, which has an
> > is_dst method, but I have no idea how to put the date and time into
> > the correct format, and have it create a DateTime object so I can
> > convert to the correct timezone.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > --
> > Mark Schoonover, CMDBA

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