Dear Colleagues, ISO 8601 defines time zones only as offsets from UTC (Z for 0 or (+/-)hh[[:]mm]) and does not employ any time zone names.
That may be the reason, why you can name your time zone almost whatever you want in your TZ environment variable. The only effective values are UTC offset, DST offset, start of DST and end of DST. If you consider the zoneinfo data base as a standard, then this can be a source of time zone names. Though zoneinfo maps geographical locations and points in time to time zone names, since the time zone name is not a key (data base speak) or the function of mapping location and time to time zone name is not injective (math speak). kind regards Ing. Gerald Scharitzer, BSc Advanced System Specialist Technology & Tools WAVE Solutions Information Technology GmbH International Services London Member of UniCredit Group 18 Mansell Street, London E1 8AA, UK phone: +44 (0) 20 7170 1977 mobile: +44 (0) 7866 493242 fax: +44 (0) 20 7481 0306 mailto:[email protected] http://www.wave-solutions.com Company name: WAVE Solutions Information Technology GmbH, Company location: Vienna Register of company: Handelsgericht Wien, FN: 122529s Branch: WAVE Solutions Information Technology GmbH International Services London, Reference number: CN FC016222 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hewson Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Time Change (Sync) I believe the ISO standards support local time display with timezone infomation such as EST appended. But with timezone acronym usage overloaded...i.e. EST means Eastern Standard Time, but for which continent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
