Richard Hitt wrote: >Have a look in /usr/share/zoneinfo/America for the 119 places in America >alone for which GNU has provided time zone and time change information. > There are over 1500 timezone descriptions. I found this from looking >at man pages tzset(3), tzselect(8), tzfile(5). Give the tzselect >command and let it talk you through timezone setup, for fun.
Unfortunately the zoneinfo files are compiled into a binary format for faster lookup, but for real fun, you can have a look at the sources from which they are generated. If you have the glibc source tree unpacked, look into the timezone subdirectory. There you can see problems discussed like when Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, which time zones were used when on what Antarctican base, and how to represent a peculiar Saudi Arabian time zone that adjusts the clock every day so that noon always agrees with the apparent solar noon ;-) Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
