XML::Feed::Entry::Format::Atom loses tz information when parsing dates [rt.cpan.org #92763]

[atoomic]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#92763 (status was 'new')

Requestors:

• john@jrjrtech.com

From john@jrjrtech.com on 2014-02-05 20:32:34
:

Hi there -

I was using XML::Feed, and I noticed that the DateTime object from Atom 
feeds is always in UTC. It's the right time, it just loses the timezone 
offset, which is useful to know - you can figure out what timezone the 
original author was in when he wrote a piece, for example.

 From what I can tell, XML::Feed::Entry::Format::Atom is using the iso2dt 
function from XML::Atom::Util - looking at the code, you can see it 
discards the original timezone, and instead sets the dt object to be 
UTC. 
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MIYAGAWA/XML-Atom-0.27/lib/XML/Atom/Util.pm

Just thought I'd let you know. Thanks!

-John

[atoomic]

comment from #27
It looks like David Wheeler's patch in #23 will also fix this.