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Table 2: /usr/lib/locale/TZ Time Zone Table files
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| asia |
Contains rules and zones for the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong
Kong, and Israel. |
| australasia |
Contains rules and zones for the Australian states and New Zealand. |
| etcetera |
Contains rules and zones for anything not defined by the other files to cover contingencies. GMT is defined
here along with its variations, UTC, UCT (covering the case of transposed letters), Universal, and Greenwich. All
others are named positive and negative offsets from GMT. |
| europe |
Contains rules and zones for Great Britain/Eire, Western Europe, Middle Europe, Eastern Europe, and
variations. |
| northamerica |
Contains rules and zones for the United States, the Canadian provinces, and Mexico. |
| pacificnew |
Contains rules and zones for a special case known as Pacific Presidential Election Time established by a bill,
H.R. 435 passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1987. When this file was created that bill hadn't been
passed by the U.S. Senate yet. I do not know if it passed. |
| southamerica |
Contains rules and zones for Brazil and Chile. |
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