On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:32 PM, <Paul_Koning@dell.com> wrote:
> $ strings etc/zoneinfo/Asia/Almaty | tail -1
> <+06>-6

But why would you expect "strings" to produce useful output for a binary data file?

That was just the easiest way to extract the TZ string.  If you prefer hexdump, the following shows that the file ends with "\n<+06>-6\n":

$ hexdump -C etc/zoneinfo/Asia/Almaty | tail -3
000003f0  01 01 01 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 3c  |...............<|
00000400  2b 30 36 3e 2d 36 0a                              |+06>-6.|
00000407