timezone irregularity when Windows TZ is set to Indiana

Dr. Volker Zell Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com
Tue Mar 30 10:31:00 GMT 2004


>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Tate  writes:

    Joseph> If I have a Windows PC with the timezone set to
    Joseph> "(GMT-05:00)Indiana(East)", date +%Z returns the timezone as
    Joseph> "USEST". Is this designed or broken behavior?

    Joseph> If I set TZ to USEST date returns a GMT time.  I've noticed that there
    Joseph> is no zoneinfo package, but if I copy /usr/share/zoneinfo from a RHL
    Joseph> system, and set the TZ env variable to 'America/Indianapolis' I get
    Joseph> back EST as the timezone.

There is one, it's called tzcode.

Ciao
  Volker
 


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