[email protected] writes: > 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.
Heh. OP concers about 3.5 MB of locale tz data and you want to install browser which is usually much bigger? KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html
