uclibc timezone list

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 08:12:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Henrik Eriksson
<henrik.eriksson at axis.com> wrote:
> Mark Jackson wrote on 01 April 2010 14:29:
>> Erwin Steffens | Cross Point wrote:
>>> Are there lists available with all the countries and timezones and
>>> the posix timezone strings that need to be set for this timezone ?
>>
>> The simplest of searches using Google ...
>>
>> "list of countries and timezones"
>>
>> ... shows up Wikipedia and
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
>
> I might be missing something but this only lists the fairly trivial
> normal and DST time offsets.  The posix timezone strings are a bit
> more complicated as they encode normal time offset, dst offset, dst
> switching rule and zone names for normal time and dst.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know of a resource that provides a complete
> set of posix timezone strings for all zones.  Also note that some
> zones are as far as I know impossible to code as TZ strings due to
> irregular dst rules.

I'm also interested in a such list. There is an incomplete list here:
http://redmine.alpinelinux.org/issues/294
but its a start.

-nc


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