# phpman > man > DateTime::TimeZone::Floating(3pm)

## NAME
    [DateTime::TimeZone::Floating](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/DateTime%3A%3ATimeZone%3A%3AFloating/markdown) - A time zone that is always local

## VERSION
    version 2.51

## SYNOPSIS
      my $floating_tz = [DateTime::TimeZone::Floating](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/DateTime%3A%3ATimeZone%3A%3AFloating/markdown)->new;

## DESCRIPTION
    This class is used to provide the [DateTime::TimeZone](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/DateTime%3A%3ATimeZone/markdown) API needed by DateTime.pm, but for floating
    times, as defined by the RFC 2445 spec. A floating time has no time zone, and has an effective
    offset of zero.

## 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".

## SUPPORT
    Bugs may be submitted at <<https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-TimeZone/issues>>.

## SOURCE
    The source code repository for DateTime-TimeZone can be found at
    <<https://github.com/houseabsolute/DateTime-TimeZone>>.

## AUTHOR
    Dave Rolsky <<autarch@urth.org>>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Dave Rolsky.

    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.