On Mon, 18 May 2020 09:38:01 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: >Speaking of TZ, by coincidence I just stumbled across its full >documentation in UNIX System Services Command Reference Appendix I. > >Format >TZ= standardHH[:MM[:SS]] [daylight[HH[:MM[:SS:]]] >[,startdate[/starttime],enddate[/endtime]] ] > >It describes all those elements. I wasn't even aware of the DST rules >part. I'll probably not get this right, but I calculate the full US ET >string as TZ=EST05EDT04,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 > >Maybe fetching TZ would solve the original problem. And maybe it would be >easier to just take a parm. > FWIW, the POSIX forms appear as the last lines of tzdata entries and can be extracted on Linux or other modern systems with the command: ( cd /usr/share/zoneinfo && find . -name posix -prune -o -name right -prune -o -type f -exec printf %s\\t {} \; -exec tail -1 {} \; ) ... ./America/Regina CST6 ./America/Cuiaba <-04>4 ./America/Maceio <-03>3 ./America/Montreal EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 ./America/Blanc-Sablon AST4 ./America/Cambridge_Bay MST7MDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 ./America/Bogota <-05>5 ./America/Iqaluit EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 ./America/Mendoza <-03>3 ... Hammer and file to fit.
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