Re: [sheflug] Help with timezones (values of TZ)and summer (daylight savings) time.

[Adam Funk <a.funk [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hudson wrote:

>>>alex [at] ubuntu ~ $ TZ=America/New_York date
>>>Tue Apr 18 09:26:13 EDT 2006
>>
>>That looks like exactly the solution I want!  Where is there a list of 
>>possible TZ values?
> 
> 
> On my system, /usr/share/zoneinfo - the TZ value is just a filename
> relative to that directory, if that makes sense.

Mine too, now that I know to look there!

> I'm sure there is an online list or something, but I would hesitate to
> say how up-to-date each distributions list would be. If you stick to
> continents and capitals/major cities, you'll probably be ok.

I'll stick to what's in `ls -r /usr/share/zoneinfo`.

Thanks very much -- you've given me exactly the information I needed.

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