From: Nathanael Noblet <nathanael@primality.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:37:12 -0600
Is there anyway I can get a list of 3 letter abreviations so to get the JST and convert to an UTC offset?
This question comes up often enough that I'll add something like the following text to the tz-link.htm file in my next proposed patch: Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique identifiers for UTC offsets as they are ambiguous in practice. For example, "EST" denotes 5 hours behind UTC in English-speaking North America, but it also denotes 10 or 11 hours ahead of UTC in Australia; and French-speaking North Americans prefer "HNE" to "EST". For compatibility with POSIX the tz database contains English abbreviations for all time stamps but in many cases these are merely inventions of the database maintainers.