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.IX Title "Time::Zone 3"
.TH Time::Zone 3 "2009-12-12" "perl v5.8.8" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Time::Zone \-\- miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&        use Time::Zone;
\&        print tz2zone();
\&        print tz2zone($ENV{\*(AqTZ\*(Aq});
\&        print tz2zone($ENV{\*(AqTZ\*(Aq}, time());
\&        print tz2zone($ENV{\*(AqTZ\*(Aq}, undef, $isdst);
\&        $offset = tz_local_offset();
\&        $offset = tz_offset($TZ);
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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This is a collection of miscellaneous timezone manipulation routines.
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`tz2zone()\*(C'\fR parses the \s-1TZ\s0 environment variable and returns a timezone
string suitable for inclusion in \fIdate\fR\|(1)\-like output.  It opionally takes
a timezone string, a time, and a is-dst flag.
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`tz_local_offset()\*(C'\fR determins the offset from \s-1GMT\s0 time in seconds.  It
only does the calculation once.
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`tz_offset()\*(C'\fR determines the offset from \s-1GMT\s0 in seconds of a specified
timezone.
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`tz_name()\*(C'\fR determines the name of the timezone based on its offset
.SH "AUTHORS"
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com>