[html-formfu] time_zone with DateTime element

[Carl Franks]

On 25 March 2010 11:30, rahed <raherh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a config file for DateTime element along these lines:
>
> elements:
>  - type: DateTime
>    name: date
>    label: From
>    default_natural: now
>    field_order: ['day','month','year','hour']
>    hour:
>      time_zone: Europe/Berlin
>
> I am not able to set a local hour, it's always utc time.
>
> Getting the local hour from DateTime object is ok:
>
> $dt = DateTime->now(time_zone = 'Europe/Berlin');
> $hour = $dt->hour();
>
> Is it possible to set the current hour?

I've added a new method on the Date element (which DateTime
subclasses) that allows you to set values on the DateTime object
before it's used.
See the docs for details.
It's in svn -r1698, and will be in the next CPAN release.

Cheers,
Carl