How do you generate POSIX time zone strings?

March 19, 1997

      Hi,

I am hoping this is the correct alias for this question (apologies of not).

I am trying to find a straight forward way to generate POSIX time zone
strings for the current year. For example, if this function were run
on machine which has TZ set to US/Pacific in 1997 it would generate:

	PST8PDT7,97/3:00:00,300/1:00:00

Any suggestions welcome. Currently my best thought is parsing the zoneinfo
files and generating them that way, which is quite tedious.

Thanks,
Tony

How do you generate POSIX time zone strings?

Tony Glenning