<<On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:52:25 +0200, sdaoden@gmail.com (Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso) said:
Except for Mac OS X all operating systems i use simply map Olson's hierarchy.
Then they're doing it wrong. Does anyone remember when zone.tab was added to the distribution? I wrote an application to use it more than ten years ago. FreeBSD users have long been asked to select among: east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc. Heilongjiang (except Mohe), Jilin central China - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, etc. most of Tibet & Xinjiang west Tibet & Xinjiang We don't present the TZids at all. Users are welcome to learn about them, and they have some utility for command-line use with date(1), but they truly are an implementation detail. -GAWollman