Setting timezone for sub-hour offsets - e.g. India UTC +5:30

[Mothra]

I am trying to create Calendar for our Offshore support team in India. Their Timezone is UTC +5:30. Unfortunately, Framework -> Core::Time::Calendarn will only allow timezone offset to be whole hours.

Is there a way to extend this without having to hack the perl scripts underneath?

[crythias]

Unfortunately, no... not unless something drastically has changed since 3.2/3.3

[Mothra]

Ok... is there a way to do that *does* involve hacking the perl scripts underneath?

[crythias]

Perhaps, but the intricacies of making it work ...
Start with something like Kernel/System/Time.pm

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            my $Zone = $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get( "TimeZone::Calendar" . $Param{Calendar} );
            if ($Zone) {
                $Zone             = $Zone * 3600;                # 60 * 60
                $Param{StartTime} = $Param{StartTime} + $Zone;
                $Param{StopTime}  = $Param{StopTime} + $Zone;
            }

and

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    if ( $Param{Calendar} ) {
        if ( $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get( "TimeZone::Calendar" . $Param{Calendar} . "Name" ) ) {
            $TimeWorkingHours
                = $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get( "TimeWorkingHours::Calendar" . $Param{Calendar} );
            $TimeVacationDays
                = $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get( "TimeVacationDays::Calendar" . $Param{Calendar} );
            $TimeVacationDaysOneTime = $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get(
                "TimeVacationDaysOneTime::Calendar" . $Param{Calendar}
            );
            $Zone = $Self->{ConfigObject}->Get( "TimeZone::Calendar" . $Param{Calendar} );
            $Zone = $Zone * 3600;                                                          # 60 * 60
            $Param{StartTime} = $Param{StartTime} + $Zone;
        }
    }

The "feel" seems to be that $Zone could be 5.5

Which ... You know, may be "fixable" from Config.pm

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$Self->{TimeZone} = '+5.5';

(May not be necessary unless server is running UTC)
and any of
$Self->{TimeZone::Calendarx} = "+5.5";
I can't vouch for this, but hey, it makes sense to me.

[Mothra]

Ok thanks - I'll give this a go.