[tpm] TZ code to hour offset conversion ideas?

[Sergio Salvi]

http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone/lib/DateTime/TimeZone.pm

It's even mentioned in the link you sent... :P

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I want to create a simple ... "library"? ... to provide data for a simple
> method do say:
>
> my $offset=&get_tz_offset("est", "1998-06-15");
>
>  I've got the TZ data from: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
>
>  It would need to be parsed though, and this I am hoping I can avoid by
> downloading an existing parser (I am not too concerned how this parser
> actually dumps data, I can hack that up). I just need something like: "For
> TZ X in date Y, the offset is Z".
>
>  I am not sure if I will need the geographic data, as I am not trying to
> determine what the TZ is, that's given to me. I just need the offset for the
> given date.
>
> Any suggestions? Should I start hacking up a parser myself? Do I ask too
> many questions? :)
>
> Madi
>
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