DateTim...loating(3)

okay bestie, this is the DateTim...loating(3) page — yes, that's the manual name — and it comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. It's giving very niche Perl time-zone excellence, and honestly? iconic.

💖 NAME 💖

DateTime::TimeZone::Floating — a time zone that is always local. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.64 — periodt.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

bestie, you summon it like this:

  my $floating_tz = DateTime::TimeZone::Floating->new;

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this class exists to give DateTime.pm the DateTime::TimeZone API it needs — but specifically for floating times, as defined by the RFC 2445 spec. A floating time has no time zone, and has an effective offset of zero. it's floating, bestie, that's the whole point 💅

🌸 USAGE 🌸

This class has the same methods as a real time zone object. The short_name_for_datetime() method returns the string "floating" and the category() method returns "undef". iykyk 🫶

🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

Bugs may be submitted at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-TimeZone/issues>. if you find one, don't be shy — the repo is right there 🎀

💜 SOURCE 💜

The source code repository for DateTime-TimeZone can be found at <https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-TimeZone>. go browse, bestie, it's giving open source main character energy ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> — author credit, slay 👑

🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Dave Rolsky. legal tea, but make it cute 🍓

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this distribution.

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that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this cutie was made with <yellow>perl v5.42.0</yellow> and dated `2025-01-22.