Hello, I am writing a plugin that uses the timezone. Ikiwiki.pm defines the default timezone to :/etc/localtime. The problem is that I do not know how to parse this.

In my code, I have lines like $now = DateTime->now(time_zone => $config{timezone}); or $thistime = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch=>$thistime, time_zone=>$config{timezone});. They work well when timezone is something like Europe/Paris, but with the default :/etc/localtime, I get the error message The timezone ':/etc/localtime' is an invalid name.

Is there a way to automatically recognize both Europe/Paris and :/etc/localtime? Or should I add something like the following in my code?

if ($config{timezone} eq ":/etc/localtime") {
    $config{timezone} = DateTime::TimeZone->new(name=>'local')->name();
}

Regards,
Louis