TimeZone handling for Perl 6.

Parses common offset strings and returns an Int value.

Returns a TimeZone object representing the zone passed to it. These objects provide an .Int call, so they may be used directly as the :timezone parameter for a DateTime object.

This will support any timezone listed in the Olson database.

The $datetime is used to calculate the offset depending on Daylight Savings Time rules for the given Time Zone.

If $datetime is not passed, it assumes DateTime.now();

A shortcut for: $datetime.in-timezone(timezone($name, $datetime));

This is very much under development, and currently only the tz-offset() subroutine is supported.

• Timothy Totten
• Andrew Egeler

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