Thanks for your advice. I listed the contents of the /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo directory and found no subdirectory called Europe. I am therefore assuming that the system must default to a specified timezone if the given timezone is unrecognised.
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Yes, it defaults to GMT for missing timezones (at least that's what the docs say — the DST offset is apparently being applied separately).
BTW, you can probably generate the
timezone files yourself. The sources are normally distributed in
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src. For some reason, the european
zones are usually not compiled/installed automatically. So, just
issue "zic /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src/europe" to compile them.
Unless told otherwise (-d), this command will install directly
into the default /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo, so you'll of course need root privileges.
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