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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/14/07 12:20
David T. Ashley wrote:
> In the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory (I'm assuming that is what you meant),
> there are a bunch of files and directories, but they seem to have binary
> contents, and I don't know the format.
See "man zdump".
Examples:
[ti@ophelia (pts/5) ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump "UTC"
UTC Thu Jun 14 12:11:43 2007 UTC
[ti@ophelia (pts/5) ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump "Australia/Yancowinna"
Australia/Yancowinna Thu Jun 14 21:41:47 2007 CST
[ti@ophelia (pts/5) ~]$ /usr/sbin/zdump "Australia/NSW"
Australia/NSW Thu Jun 14 22:11:50 2007 EST
(For those who are interested, the eastern mainland states of Australia,
are divided into counties, though these divisions are rarely used.
Yancowinna is a county in the extreme west of New South Wales, notable for
two facts: it contains Broken Hill, an old opal mining town which was the
filming location for most of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"; and it uses
a different timezone from the rest of the state.)
Anyway, zdump is able to tell you the current time in any given timezone.
By comparing that with the time in UTC, you ought to be able to find its
UTC offset programmatically.
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