DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32 - Determine the local system's time zone on Windows
version 1.74
my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone->new( name => 'local' ); my $tz = DateTime::TimeZone::Local->TimeZone();
This module provides methods for determining the local time zone on a Windows platform.
This class tries the following methods of determining the local time zone:
$ENV{TZ}
It checks $ENV{TZ} for a valid time zone name.
Windows Registry
When using the registry, we look for the Windows time zone and use a mapping to translate this to an Olson time zone name.
Windows Vista and 2008
We look in "SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/TimeZoneInformation/" for a node named "/TimeZoneKeyName". If this exists, we use this key to look up the Olson time zone name in our mapping.
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server
We look in "SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Time Zones/" and loop through all of its sub keys.
For each sub key, we compare the value of the key with "/Std" appended to the end to the value of "SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/TimeZoneInformation/StandardName". This gives us the English name of the Windows time zone, which we use to look up the Olson time zone name.
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millenium Edition
The algorithm is the same as for NT, but we loop through the sub keys of "SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Time Zones/"
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Dave Rolsky.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install DateTime::TimeZone, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm DateTime::TimeZone
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install DateTime::TimeZone
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.