Issue #13050 has been updated by Garrett Wollman.

For systems using the Olson (now IANA) timezone database, the name "tzid" is 
commonly used.  However, Windows systems use a completely different set of 
names.  (ICU has a table that maps tzids to Windows zones, but the relation is 
not invertible.)  I suggested "tzname" as being generic enough to encompass 
tzids, Windows zone names, and POSIX TZ strings.
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Feature #13050: facter should have a fact for the long timezone name
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13050#change-56733

Author: Garrett Wollman
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
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Affected Facter version: 1.6.6


FreeBSD 9.0 (and possibly 8.3, I haven't checked) and later cache the name of 
the configured timezone in /var/db/zoneinfo.  This is more meaningful than the 
contents of struct tm's tm_zone, and would be useful as a condition to 
determine whether to sync a new /etc/localtime out when the government screws 
with your timezone.  I'm not sure what the best way to add this is, so no patch 
supplied.  (The /var/db/zoneinfo file is a single line of text with the name of 
the zone, suitable for use in tzsetup(8) or $TZ.)



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