Re^3: Converting local time to UTC mystery

[ikegami]

I would need to find out how much I am away from UTC.

...which changes during the year, making it that much more difficult. Yeah, hardcoding offsets is not the way to go.

[ikegami]

That said, '+0200' can be replaced with 'local'

[rovf]

Indeed this works, thanks a lot!!! I wonder, where this is documented...

For completeness, here the working function call:

my $seconds_since_epoch=str2time($timestamp_local, 'local');

[ikegami]

«The time_zone parameter can be either a scalar or a DateTime::TimeZone object. A string will simply be passed to the DateTime::TimeZone->new method as its "name" parameter. This string may be an Olson DB time zone name ("America/Chicago"), an offset string ("+0630"), or the words "floating" or "local". See the DateTime::TimeZone documentation for more details.»