[tz] What are the interfaces to the TZDB?

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Nov 9 16:04:17 UTC 2021


On 11/9/21 06:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAIK, the only way to enumerate the available zones in a typical
> installation is to search the directory tree.

Although that was true years ago, since 2017c tzdb has distributed a 
file tzdata.zi that also works. For example, on my Fedora 35 host, the 
shell command:

awk '/^Z/ {print $2}' /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi

lists a name for each distinct TZif file.


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