Zefram wrote: > Matthew wrote: >> Hehe. I'm the DBA. And I've updated everything to most recent stuff, >>but the boss man wants "generic time zones" in our list "just in case" a >>customer can't find his or doesn't realize his city is listed differently. > > Unlikely to ever occur. As far as anyone knows, the Olson zoneinfo > database contains all currently-distinct timezones. (It explicitly aims > to include all timezones that have been distinct at any time since 1970.) > You might want to play with the tzselect(8) program, which guides one > through selecting a geographical timezone from the database.
I don't think you read all the way to the end of Matthew's paragraph. But FWIW, the Olson etcetera file has this to say: # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" # to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the # tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical # need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea # that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. -- I'm looking for a job: http://perlmonks.org/?node=ysth#looking
