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NAME

6       DateTime::TimeZone::Local - Determine the local system's time zone
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VERSION

9       version 2.47
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SYNOPSIS

12         my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => 'local' );
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14         my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone::Local->TimeZone();
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DESCRIPTION

17       This module provides an interface for determining the local system's
18       time zone. Most of the functionality for doing this is in OS-specific
19       subclasses.
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USAGE

22       This class provides the following methods:
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24   DateTime::TimeZone::Local->TimeZone()
25       This attempts to load an appropriate subclass and asks it to find the
26       local time zone. This method is called by when you pass "local" as the
27       time zone name to "DateTime:TimeZone->new()".
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29       If your OS is not explicitly handled, you can create a module with a
30       name of the form "DateTime::TimeZone::Local::$^O". If it exists, it
31       will be used instead of falling back to the Unix subclass.
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33       If no OS-specific module exists, we fall back to using the Unix
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36       See DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Unix,
37       DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Android, DateTime::TimeZone::Local::hpux,
38       DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32, and DateTime::TimeZone::Local::VMS
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SUBCLASSING

42       If you want to make a new OS-specific subclass, there are several
43       methods provided by this module you should know about.
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45   $class->Methods()
46       This method should be provided by your class. It should provide a list
47       of methods that will be called to try to determine the local time zone.
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49       Each of these methods is expected to return a new "DateTime::TimeZone"
50       object if it can successfully determine the time zone.
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52   $class->FromEnv()
53       This method tries to find a valid time zone in an %ENV value. It calls
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56       To use this from a subclass, simply return "FromEnv" as one of the
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59   $class->EnvVars()
60       This method should be provided by your subclass. It should return a
61       list of env vars to be checked by "$class->FromEnv()".
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63       Your class should always include the "TZ" key as one of the variables
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66   $class->_IsValidName($name)
67       Given a possible time zone name, this returns a boolean indicating
68       whether or not the name looks valid. It always return false for "local"
69       in order to avoid infinite loops.
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EXAMPLE SUBCLASS

72       Here is a simple example subclass:
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74         package DateTime::TimeZone::SomeOS;
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79         use base 'DateTime::TimeZone::Local';
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82         sub Methods { qw( FromEnv FromEther ) }
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84         sub EnvVars { qw( TZ ZONE ) }
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86         sub FromEther
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SUPPORT

94       Bugs may be submitted at
95       <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-TimeZone/issues>.
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97       I am also usually active on IRC as 'autarch' on "irc://irc.perl.org".
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SOURCE

100       The source code repository for DateTime-TimeZone can be found at
101       <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-TimeZone>.
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AUTHOR

104       Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
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107       This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Dave Rolsky.
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109       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
110       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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112       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
113       with this distribution.
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