Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:45:39 -0500 From: "John Dlugosz" <JDlugosz@TradeStation.com> Message-ID: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70925C93A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> | So what is the way, in this code (or POSIX), to get the name of the | timezone? For what you ask there, there is none, here, or elsewhere. tzname[] (despite its name) is not that, it is the current timezone abbreviation (which in this code is better obtained from tm_tzname if it is really needed for anything - I'd actually suggest avoiding its use if you possibly can, use the numeric offset instead). In POSIX my guess is (I'm no POSIX expert) that strftime("%Z") is probably the correct way, that at least allows for some degree of localisation, which localtime() certainly does not. | And I assume what is really wanted is the name at the time of | interest, so you can label output with the local time and the | abbreviation. If it is just for human consumption, and the human will already have a pretty good idea what zone might be being referenced, then the zone abbreviation is probably acceptable - you just cannot rely on its value being useful for anything more than that (they're wildly ambiguous, and in the timezone package, for some zones, totally arbitrary and meaningless - in many (particularly smaller) countries the time is just the time, and has no name by which it is distinguished from the time someplace else.) | (Forgive me for using Outlook; Ah, sorry, that one is a sin beyond redemption - eternal damnation is your only prospect... kre