Aug. 5, 1996
2:58 p.m.
# ZONE-DESCR America New_York United_States Eastern time
Good idea, but how about a format like this instead?
America/New_York +404251-0740023 US US Eastern time
where the columns are:
* zone name in tz database * latitude and longitude (in ISO 6709 format) of the zone's main location * country code (in ISO 3166 2-letter format) * an (English) comment describing the zone
One approach would be to, for example, Link America/New_York Coords/+404251-0740023 Link America/New_York Descrips/US_Eastern_time --ado