Stan Brown wrote:
Anyone know where (or if) there's an ISO standard list on line?
Names of timezones have never been standardised, but a good
pseudo-standard might be the table in getdate.c, part of the GNU
"sh-utils" package.
The table is reproduced below, and may be distributed under the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
/* The time zone table. This table is necessarily incomplete, as time
zone abbreviations are ambiguous; e.g. Australians interpret "EST"
as Eastern time in Australia, not as US Eastern Standard Time.
You cannot rely on getdate to handle arbitrary time zone
abbreviations; use numeric abbreviations like `-0500' instead. */
static table const time_zone_table[] =
{
{ "GMT",tZONE , HOUR ( 0) },/* Greenwich Mean */
{ "UT",tZONE, HOUR ( 0) },/* Universal (Coordinated) */
{ "UTC",tZONE , HOUR ( 0) },
{ "WET",tZONE , HOUR ( 0) },/* Western European */
{ "WEST",tDAYZONE , HOUR ( 0) },/* Western European Summer */
{ "BST",tDAYZ ONE, HOUR ( 0) },/* British Summer */
{ "ART",tZONE , -HOUR ( 3) },/* Argentina */
{ "BRT",tZONE , -HOUR ( 3) },/* Brazil */
{ "BRST",tDAYZONE , -HOUR ( 3) },/* Brazil Summer */
{ "NST",tZONE , -(HOUR ( 3) + 30) },/* Newfoundland Standard */
{ "NDT",tDAYZ ONE,-(HOUR ( 3) + 30) },/* Newfoundland Daylight */
{ "AST",tZONE , -HOUR ( 4) },/* Atlantic Standard */
{ "ADT",tDAYZ ONE, -HOUR ( 4) },/* Atlantic Daylight */
{ "CLT",tZONE , -HOUR ( 4) },/* Chile */
{ "CLST",tDAYZONE , -HOUR ( 4) },/* Chile Summer */
{ "EST",tZONE , -HOUR ( 5) },/* Eastern Standard */
{ "EDT",tDAYZ ONE, -HOUR ( 5) },/* Eastern Daylight */
{ "CST",tZONE , -HOUR ( 6) },/* Central Standard */
{ "CDT",tDAYZ ONE, -HOUR ( 6) },/* Central Daylight */
{ "MST",tZONE , -HOUR ( 7) },/* Mountain Standard */
{ "MDT",tDAYZ ONE, -HOUR ( 7) },/* Mountain Daylight */
{ "PST",tZONE , -HOUR ( 8) },/* Pacific Standard */
{ "PDT",tDAYZ ONE, -HOUR ( 8) },/* Pacific Daylight */
{ "AKST",tZON E, -HOUR ( 9) },/* Alaska Standard */
{ "AKDT",tDAYZONE , -HOUR ( 9) },/* Alaska Daylight */
{ "HST",tZONE , -HOUR (10) },/* Hawaii Standard */
{ "HAST",tZON E, -HOUR (10) },/* Hawaii-Aleutian Standard */
{ "HADT",tDAYZONE , -HOUR (10) },/* Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight */
{ "SST",tZONE , -HOUR (12) },/* Samoa Standard */
{ "WAT",tZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* West Africa */
{ "CET",tZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* Central European */
{ "CEST",tDAYZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* Central European Summer */
{ "MET",tZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* Middle European */
{ "MEZ",tZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* Middle European */
{ "MEST",tDAYZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* Middle European Summer */
{ "MESZ",tDAYZONE , HOUR ( 1) },/* Middle European Summer */
{ "EET",tZONE , HOUR ( 2) },/* Eastern European */
{ "EEST",tDAYZONE , HOUR ( 2) },/* Eastern European Summer */
{ "CAT",tZONE , HOUR ( 2) },/* Central Africa */
{ "SAST",tZON E, HOUR ( 2) },/* South Africa Standard */
{ "EAT",tZONE , HOUR ( 3) },/* East Africa */
{ "MSK",tZONE , HOUR ( 3) },/* Moscow */
{ "MSD",tDAYZ ONE, HOUR ( 3) },/* Moscow Daylight */
{ "IST",tZONE , (HOUR ( 5) + 30) },/* India Standard */
{ "SGT",tZONE , HOUR ( 8) },/* Singapore */
{ "KST",tZONE , HOUR ( 9) },/* Korea Standard */
{ "JST",tZONE , HOUR ( 9) },/* Japan Standard */
{ "GST",tZONE , HOUR (10) },/* Guam Standard */
{ "NZST",tZON E, HOUR (12) },/* New Zealand Standard */
{ "NZDT",tDAYZONE , HOUR (12) },/* New Zealand Daylight */
{ 0, 0, 0 }
};
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