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Re: NTP - date/time "controversy"
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Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:02:22 -0600
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Wayne R. Boyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Is there some kind of international standard for
> time zone IDs?  I've had to put time zone info into a file and I wanted to
> use some kind of standard for the data values.

I'm not aware of an international standard for the designation of a
time zone.  The POSIX standard (ISO/IEC 9945-1) specifies the format
of the TZ variable, and requires that the designation for a time zone
be at least 3 bytes in length.

Walter

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