Olson::Abbreviations -globally unique timezones abbreviation handling
Version 0.01
This module should help you with converting commonly used and often ambigious olson abbreviations into TZ offset notation.
This module is released as 0.01 because it is useful. It is not complete. In order to be complete in the Author's eyes this module must accept a locale and disambiguate based on that. EST is not ambigious if your standing in the US or in Austrailia. This module should handle this properly in the future.
Quick summary of what the module does.
Perhaps a little code snippet.
use Olson::Abbreviations;
my $oa = Olson::Abbreviations->new({ tz_abbreviation => 'EST' });
$oa->is_unambigious; # returns 0
$oa->is_known; # returns 1
$oa->get_offset # dies
...
Returns 0|1 based on if the abbreviation is globally unambigious to the whole planet
Returns 0|1 based on if the abbreviation is known despite if it is ambigious or not
Evan Carroll, <me+cpan at evancarroll.com>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-olson-abbreviations at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Olson-Abbreviations. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc Olson::Abbreviations
You can also look for information at:
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Olson-Abbreviations
Copyright 2009 Evan Carroll, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
