Re^3: $ENV{TZ} and localtime

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.

Thanks for your help.

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Re^4: $ENV{TZ} and localtime by almut (Canon) on Sep 20, 2007 at 22:46 UTC
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.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: $ENV{TZ} and localtime
by almut (Canon) on Sep 20, 2007 at 22:46 UTC

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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