[tz] Time zone of Iceland in Africa?

tz at schwilli.at 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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