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tzfile.5: Add information on version 2 format timezone files
Updated using information from the tzcode 2010l release at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub. (It's an open question whether or not a version of tzfile.5 should live independently in man-pages. It was added to the man-pages set many years ago. For now, I'll follow a conservative course that causes least pain to downstream, by continuing to maintain a separate copy in man-pages.) See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594219 Reported-by: Yitzchak Gale <gale@sefer.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
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.\" @(#)tzfile.5 7.11
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.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
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.\" 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson <arthur_david_olson@nih.gov>.
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.TH TZFILE 5 1996-06-05 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.TH TZFILE 5 2010-08-31 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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tzfile \- timezone information
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR tzset (3)
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begin with the magic characters "TZif" to identify then as
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timezone information files,
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followed by sixteen bytes reserved for future use,
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followed by a character identifying the version of the file's format
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(as of 2005, either an ASCII NUL ('\\0') or a '2')
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followed by fifteen bytes containing zeroes reserved for future use,
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followed by six four-byte values of type
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.IR long ,
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written in a "standard" byte order
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described in the file is associated with the same-indexed transition time.
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These values serve as indices into an array of
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.I ttinfo
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structures that appears next in the file;
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structures (with
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.I tzh_typecnt
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entries) that appear next in the file;
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these structures are defined as follows:
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.in +4n
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.sp
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and are used when a timezone file is used in handling POSIX-style
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timezone environment variables.
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.PP
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.I Localtime
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.BR localtime (3)
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uses the first standard-time
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.I ttinfo
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structure in the file
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.I tzh_timecnt
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is zero or the time argument is less than the first transition time recorded
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in the file.
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.PP
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For version-2-format timezone files,
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the above header and data is followed by a second header and data,
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identical in format except that
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eight bytes are used for each transition time or leap-second time.
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After the second header and data comes a newline-enclosed,
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POSIX-TZ-environment-variable-style string for use in handling instants
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after the last transition time stored in the file
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(with nothing between the newlines if there is no POSIX representation for
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such instants).
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR ctime (3)
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