Tim Guirgies wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:35:08PM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx> writes: [...] > > > Yeah, sorry, that deserved a bit more explanation. This is a kludge to > > > get Tcl 8.4 to format dates in the right timezone. IDK is an arbitrary > > > made up 3-letter code (âI Donât Knowâ), since a UTC offset canât generally > > > be converted into a zone name. The format of TZ is described at: > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html > > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html > > > > > > Actually, reading that again, I just realized that I need to invert the > > > sign. Also that it can be longer than 3 letters; Iâll use âUnknownâ > > > instead. > > > > Why not use UTC+N timezone (note: please check of for +HHMM it is > > UTC+HH or UTC-HH) for timezone with given numeric offset from > > Coordinated Universal Time? > > > > BTW. UTC because http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/utcnist.cfm#cut > > But what of half-hour offsets, in that case? A better idea would be > UTC+HHMM or UTC-HHMM. As an example, SA (CST) has a timezone of > UTC+0930. I think full specification is UTC+HH:MM or UTC-HH:MM. GNU date understands 'TZ=UTC+09:30 date'. P.S. I should have remembered about fractional timezones, as we have had problems in gitweb with those... and I have checked then that git.git repository includes some commits in fractional timezones. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html