On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on > our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who > devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really > super clever to treat ALL unknown TZ strings as if they were "UTC0".
... > Outside of the USA, you'll probably need to go with the "nearest big > city" names that are the current vogue. The best way to use those is > probably "ls /usr/share/zoneinfo", choose your continent, and then > (for example) "ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia". Then pick a city from > the resulting set, and pray. > > If there's a better way, I don't know it. Just google [time in <name of place>] (e.g., time in China). No need to find a TZ string.
