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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>According to the Linux manual (<a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html">http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/tzfile.5.html</a>) the last line of the time zone database may contain the POSIX timezone string, which is the case of the files generated by following the instructions in <a href="https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html">https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’ve downloaded the latest release (2017b) and I obtain the following POSIX string for Israel: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>[/usr/share/zoneinfo]# tail -n 1 Israel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IST-2IDT,M3.4.4/26,M10.5.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>But if I understood correctly, the POSIX specification (<a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/">http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/</a>) states that the value ‘26’ is out of range. It should be</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'> between zero and 24.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>My linux system does not display the correct timezone if I use the string ‘IST-2IDT,M3.4.4/26,M10.5.0’ as the contents of /etc/TZ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Andre Brizido<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>