On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > I'm currently sticking the first three characters of TZ or a string such as > EST5EDT in timezone_name, and I know that's wrong. What *should* I be doing > instead? > > Charles You should use the portion in front of the offset digits (5,+5, -2, etc) during standard time (winter) and use the portion after the offset during daylight savings time (summer). Lengths may vary. Date ranges could be specified in the TZ variable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones has a nice list and a link to a tz database file. -- Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
