Jan. 22, 2018
7:36 p.m.
On 2018-01-22 18:55, Steve Allen wrote:
The traditional calendar for observing at Lick Observatory has always had days begin at local noon. This means that the time zone for the Lick calendar is 20 hours behind Greenwich. I implore all implementors to accommodate local time zones which are not limited to the list that is part of tzdb.
One could just use TZ='LickT20'. The extremal offsets for standard POSIX TZ strings are +-24:59:59 h. Michael Deckers.