Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on
> our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who
> devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really
> super clever to treat ALL unknown TZ strings as if they were "UTC0".
...
> Outside of the USA, you'll probably need to go with the "nearest big
> city" names that are the current vogue. The best way to use those is
> probably "ls /usr/share/zoneinfo", choose your continent, and then
> (for example) "ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia". Then pick a city from
> the resulting set, and pray.
>
> If there's a better way, I don't know it.
Just google [time in <name of place>] (e.g., time in China). No need to find a
TZ string.
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