Re: Lost in DateTime !

[haukex]

I try to to print this local time 23:55

If your local time zone is Europe/Paris (currently CEST / +0200), then note that your input time, '2017-06-10 21:55:00+02', is already in that time zone, so when you ->set_time_zone('Europe/Paris'), there is no change in the time zone.

Now if your input string was '2017-06-10 21:55:00+00' (note the +00, i.e. UTC), then doing a ->set_time_zone('Europe/Paris') on that should give you 2017-06-10 23:55:00 CEST.

[Discipulus]

..indeed i arrived to a similar conclusion, but slowly.. removing the +02 the conversion was made as expected: ie the +02 is the timezone hour modification

perl -MDateTime -e "@dtarg{qw(year month day hour minute second)}=spli
+t/[\s:-]/,'2017-06-10 21:55:00';$dt=DateTime->new(%dtarg); print scal
+ar localtime($dt->epoch)"

Sat Jun 10 23:55:00 2017

L*

[haukex]

There is still a difference though, note that the DateTime object you've built is in the special "floating" time zone, and setting a time zone on it won't adjust the time value:

use warnings;
use strict;
use DateTime::Format::Strptime;

my $strp = DateTime::Format::Strptime->new(
    on_error=>'croak', pattern => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z');
my @dt = (
    $strp->parse_datetime('2017-06-10 21:55:00+02'),
    DateTime->new(year=>2017,month=>6,day=>10,
        hour=>21,minute=>55,second=>0),
    $strp->parse_datetime('2017-06-10 21:55:00+00'),
);

for my $i (0..$#dt) {
    print "$i: ",$dt[$i]->strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z (%z)'),"\n";
    $dt[$i]->set_time_zone('Europe/Paris');
    print "$i: ",$dt[$i]->strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z (%z)'),"\n";
}

__END__

0: 2017-06-10 21:55:00 +0200 (+0200)
0: 2017-06-10 21:55:00 CEST (+0200)
1: 2017-06-10 21:55:00 floating (+0000)
1: 2017-06-10 21:55:00 CEST (+0200)
2: 2017-06-10 21:55:00 UTC (+0000)
2: 2017-06-10 23:55:00 CEST (+0200)

[pcouderc]

Thank you. Well, I do not know exactly what is my input. I know that is was 23;55 Paris time. And I know that pgadmin displays 2017-06-10 21:55:00+02. I thnk that my input is 2017-06-10 21:55:00+02 and not 2017-06-10 21:55:00+00. My question is now, what should I do to print local time that is 23:55 ... ? .

[haukex]

I know that is was 23;55 Paris time. And I know that pgadmin displays 2017-06-10 21:55:00+02.

Then it sounds to me like your time might be stored incorrectly in the DB. Personally I would try to track down the source of this error first, and fix it wherever the times are being put in the DB, and correcting the previously incorrectly stored times directly in the database if possible.

Looking at the DateTime::Format::Pg docs, there are two methods, ->parse_timestamp_with_time_zone() suitable for columns of type TIMESTAMPTZ, and ->parse_timestamp_without_time_zone(), suitable for columns of type TIMESTAMP. Which do you have?

Also, have a look at the "Limitations" section in the aforementioned docs - I don't know much about PostgreSQL, but it sounds to me like a discrepancy between the server time zone and your time zone might possibly also be to blame.

I thnk that my input is 2017-06-10 21:55:00+02

Have you tried something like print "<<$row[1]>>\n"; to verify?

From here: I have found a full DateTime solution : ... remove Paris time zone code, by converting to floating, set UTC time code, then convert by setting Paris time code.

Sorry to be direct but this sounds like a hack that shouldn't be necessary if you correct the above issues. If you don't fix the problem at its source it will bite you elsewhere.

[pcouderc]

Please note that I do N_O_T write in the DB. I R_E_A_D it : "asterisk" (software for PABX, see WK) writes for me. My DB is soon written.
About ->parse_timestamp_with_time_zone(), pease see above to see my code. In fact, I have tried all...

[pcouderc]

Thank you all monks for your help. I think that , thanks to you, I have found a full DateTime solution :

    my $Date3= $Date->clone()->set_time_zone('floating')->set_time_zon
+e( 'UTC'    )->set_time_zone( 'Europe/Paris'    );

That is, remove Paris time zone code, by converting to floating, set UTC time code, then convert by setting Paris time code.