[tz] Time zone of Iceland in Africa?
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tz at schwilli.at
Thu Nov 9 22:25:41 UTC 2023
Hi,
I would expect to find the time zone of Iceland/Reykjavik in Europe or
Atlantic Ocean but it is in Africa:
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# tzselect
Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", or "TZ".
1) Africa
2) Americas
3) Antarctica
4) Asia
5) Atlantic Ocean
6) Australia
7) Europe
8) Indian Ocean
9) Pacific Ocean
10) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates.
11) TZ - I want to specify the timezone using the Posix TZ format.
#? 1
Please select a country whose clocks agree with yours.
1) Algeria 20) Gabon 39) Nigeria
2) Angola 21) Gambia 40) Rwanda
3) Benin 22) Ghana 41) Sao Tome & Principe
4) Botswana 23) Guinea 42) Senegal
5) Burkina Faso 24) Guinea-Bissau 43) Sierra Leone
6) Burundi 25) Iceland 44) Somalia
7) Cameroon 26) Kenya 45) South Africa
8) Central African Rep. 27) Lesotho 46) South Sudan
9) Chad 28) Liberia 47) Spain
10) Comoros 29) Libya 48) St Helena
11) Congo (Dem. Rep.) 30) Madagascar 49) Sudan
12) Congo (Rep.) 31) Malawi 50) Tanzania
13) Côte d'Ivoire 32) Mali 51) Togo
14) Djibouti 33) Mauritania 52) Tunisia
15) Egypt 34) Mayotte 53) Uganda
16) Equatorial Guinea 35) Morocco 54) Western Sahara
17) Eritrea 36) Mozambique 55) Zambia
18) Eswatini (Swaziland) 37) Namibia 56) Zimbabwe
19) Ethiopia 38) Niger
#? 25
The following information has been given:
Iceland
Therefore TZ='Africa/Abidjan' will be used.
Selected time is now: Fri Sep 15 05:44:06 GMT 2023.
Universal Time is now: Fri Sep 15 05:44:06 UTC 2023.
Is the above information OK?
1) Yes
2) No
#? 1
You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line
TZ='Africa/Abidjan'; export TZ
to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in
again.
Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you
can use the /usr/bin/tzselect command in shell scripts:
Africa/Abidjan
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Why is it mapped to 'Africa/Abidjan'?
# tzselect --version
tzselect (GNU libc) 2.35
release of tz code and data: 2023c
Thx,
Reinhard
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