No such timezone in the version of FreeBSD we are hosted on. I recently wrote a Perl script to find any timezones I missed and turned up a few misses but most of them turned out not to be available in this version of FreeBSD so I backed the patch out. It is on my list to do what I can with what I have, which should include a Newfoundland TZ just not that name for it.

Though anyone else should feel free to propose their own improvements.

DateTime::Timezone provides an interface to the Olson timezone database. Dunno it that's useful in terms of the E2 engine, but it might be.

Cheers,
Matt

Thanks. Maybe I should harass FreeBSD lol

Update: the zone should be added to timezone settings shortly.

Ahhhh, now i feel at home...thank-you very much!

hehe, well, atleast i'm usually half an hout earlier then the rest of north america...always behind europe though :)

Or is it strictly limited to whatever FreeBSD has available?

You can specify a GMT offsets in units of even hours via user settings. Those timezones are for backward compatability with how PM did 'timezones' previously and they use timezones on FreeBSD that are for backward compatability as well. Unfortunately, they are backward compatible to when GMT offsets where measure in reverse to how they are now.

- tye        

/me Ouch!

This reminds me of when Ben Franklin (unwittingly) defined current flow the "wrong" way. It doesn't really matter, as long as you know what it means. But those little electrons going uphill have furrowed the brow of many a student.

[And don't make me go into how there's only one electron in the universe.]

-QM
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Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

Thanks to ysth for doing a lot of work on top the of timezone updates that I started a week or so back. Several descriptions were cleaned up.

We've now added timezones for

• Aleutian Islands
• Pitcairn Island
• Cuba
• Newfoundland
• Several areas of Greenland
• Several areas of Australia

We removed several timezones that no longer change for daylight-savings time / summer time and so were pretty redundant (Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Marshall Islands, and Tonga).

I separated the Middle East into its own section as the "Asia (except for Russia)" section was large enough.

I wrote (as I mentioned briefly) a Perl script to check for timezones that were currently the same or are nearly the same. Of the between 440 and 600 timezones in different versions of the standard timezone database, only about 80 represent real differences in what time is reported these days (most record historical differences in time readings).

So we should now have all unique timezones represented in Timezone Settings.

Note that we didn't include most timezones that differ only by what abbreviation they use (unless they also observed daylight-savings time or "summer" time). This is because you can pick your own custom abbreviation for such cases by changing your "Format for date-times" in User Settings (instead of using "%Z").

The Perl script that I used is included below. Note that it doesn't detect when the change between daylight-savings / "summer" time is different but in the same month. Thanks to ysth for noting that Tasmania was just such an exception.