Carbon/DateTime: The timezone could not be found in the database
<p>I'm reading a CSV file with datetime fields but when I try to convert the date to <code>Carbon</code> by doing <code>$date = new Carbon($row['date'])</code> I get one of these errors:</p>

<pre><code>DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (09/07/2014 16:55:22 MEST) at position 20 (M): The timezone could not be found in the database

DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (24/01/2014 16:57:27 MET) at position 0 (2): Unexpected character
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<p>Seems PHP does not recognize the MET/MEST timezones. How can I dynamically convert any non-standard timezones to create a Carbon/DateTime object?</p>