On Wed 06 Dec 2023 at 16:21:37 (-0500), James Cloos wrote: > the current America/New_York equiv is: > > EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00
That's as may be, but this discussion revolves around: "The M format is sufficient to describe many common daylight-savings transition laws. But note that none of these variants can deal with daylight-savings law changes, so in practice the historical data stored for named time zones (in the IANA time zone database) is necessary to interpret past time stamps correctly." (from some random POSIX Time Zone Specifications) Cheers, David.