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Changes affecting API
The 'zic' command now outputs a dummy transition when far-future
data can't be summarized using a TZ string, and uses a 402-year
window rather than a 400-year window. For the current data, this
affects only the Asia/Tehran file. It does not affect any of the
time stamps that this file represents, so zdump outputs the same
information as before. (Thanks to Andrew Main (Zefram).)
The 'date' command has a new '-r' option, which lets you specify
the integer time to display, a la FreeBSD.
The 'tzselect' command has two new options '-c' and '-n', which lets you
select a zone based on latitude and longitude.
The 'zic' command's '-v' option now warns about constructs that
require the new version-3 binary file format. (Thanks to Arthur
David Olson for the suggestion.)
Support for floating-point time_t has been removed.
It was always dicey, and POSIX no longer requires it.
(Thanks to Eric Blake for suggesting to the POSIX committee to
remove it, and thanks to Alan Barrett, Clive D.W. Feather, Andy
Heninger, Arthur David Olson, and Alois Treindl, for reporting
bugs and elucidating some of the corners of the old floating-point
implementation.)
The signatures of 'offtime', 'timeoff', and 'gtime' have been
changed back to the old practice of using 'long' to represent UT
offsets. This had been inadvertently and mistakenly changed to
'int_fast32_t'. (Thanks to Christos Zoulos.)
The code avoids undefined behavior on integer overflow in some
more places, including gmtime, localtime, mktime and zdump.
Changes affecting the zdump utility
zdump now outputs "UT" when referring to Universal Time, not "UTC".
"UTC" does not make sense for time stamps that predate the introduction
of UTC, whereas "UT", a more-generic term, does. (Thanks to Steve Allen
for clarifying UT vs UTC.)
Data changes affecting behavior of tzselect and similar programs
Country code BQ is now called the more-common name "Caribbean Netherlands"
rather than the more-official "Bonaire, St Eustatius & Saba".
Remove from zone.tab the names America/Montreal, America/Shiprock,
and Antarctica/South_Pole, as they are equivalent to existing
same-country-code zones for post-1970 time stamps. The data for
these names are unchanged, so the names continue to work as before.
Changes affecting code internals
zic -c now runs way faster on 64-bit hosts when given large numbers.
zic now uses vfprintf to avoid allocating and freeing some memory.
tzselect now computes the list of continents from the data,
rather than have it hard-coded.
Minor changes pacify GCC 4.7.3 and GCC 4.8.1.
Changes affecting the build procedure
The 'leapseconds' file is now generated automatically from a
new file 'leap-seconds.list', which is a copy of
<ftp://time.nist.gov/pub/leap-seconds.list>.
A new source file 'leapseconds.awk' implements this.
The goal is simplification of the future maintenance of 'leapseconds'.
When building the 'posix' or 'right' subdirectories, if the
subdirectory would be a copy of the default subdirectory, it is
now made a symbolic link if that is supported. This saves about
2 MB of file system space.
The links America/Shiprock and Antarctica/South_Pole have been
moved to the 'backward' file. This affects only nondefault builds
that omit 'backward'.
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
Changes to the 'tzfile' man page
It now mentions that the binary file format may be extended in
future versions by appending data.
It now refers to the 'zdump' and 'zic' man pages.
Changes to the 'zic' man page
It lists conditions that elicit a warning with '-v'.
It says that the behavior is unspecified when duplicate names
are given, or if the source of one link is the target of another.
Its examples are updated to match the latest data.
The definition of white space has been clarified slightly.
(Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
Changes to the 'Theory' file
There is a new section about the accuracy of the tz database,
describing the many ways that errors can creep in, and
explaining why so many of the pre-1970 time stamps are wrong or
misleading (thanks to Steve Allen, Lester Caine, and Garrett
Wollman for discussions that contributed to this).
The 'Theory' file describes LMT better (this follows a
suggestion by Guy Harris).
It refers to the 2013 edition of POSIX rather than the 2004 edition.
It's mentioned that excluding 'backward' should not affect the
other data, and it suggests at least one zone.tab name per
inhabited country (thanks to Stephen Colebourne).
Some longstanding restrictions on names are documented, e.g.,
'America/New_York' precludes 'America/New_York/Bronx'.
It gives more reasons for the 1970 cutoff.
It now mentions which time_t variants are supported, such as
signed integer time_t. (Thanks to Paul Goyette for reporting
typos in an experimental version of this change.)
(Thanks to Philip Newton for correcting typos in these changes.)
Documentation and commentary is more careful to distinguish UT in
general from UTC in particular. (Thanks to Steve Allen.)
Add a better source for the Zurich 1894 transition.
(Thanks to Pierre-Yves Berger.)
Update shapefile citations in tz-link.htm. (Thanks to Guy Harris.)
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.\" $NetBSD: tzselect.8,v 1.5 2013/09/20 19:06:54 christos Exp $
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.\"
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.TH TZSELECT 8
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.SH NAME
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tzselect \- select a time zone
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B tzselect
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[
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.B \-c
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.I coord
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] [
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.B \-n
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.I limit
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] [
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.B \-\-help
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] [
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.B \-\-version
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]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B tzselect
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program asks the user for information about the current location,
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and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard output.
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The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.
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.PP
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All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.BI "\-c " coord
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Instead of asking for continent and then country and then city,
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ask for selection from time zones whose largest cities
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are closest to the location with geographical coordinates
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.I coord.
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Use ISO 6709 notation for
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.I coord,
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that is, a latitude immediately followed by a longitude. The latitude
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and longitude should be signed integers followed by an optional
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decimal point and fraction: positive numbers represent north and east,
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negative south and west. Latitudes with two and longitudes with three
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integer digits are treated as degrees; latitudes with four or six and
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longitudes with five or seven integer digits are treated as
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.I "DDMM, DDDMM, DDMMSS,"
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or
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.I DDDMMSS
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representing
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.I DD
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or
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.I DDD
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degrees,
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.I MM
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minutes,
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and zero or
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.I SS
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seconds, with any trailing fractions represent fractional minutes or
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(if
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.I SS
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is present) seconds. The decimal point is that of the current locale.
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For example, in the (default) C locale,
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.B "\-c\ +40.689\-074.045"
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specifies 40.689\(de\|N, 74.045\(de\|W,
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.B "\-c\ +4041.4\-07402.7"
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specifies 40\(de\|41.4\(fm\|N, 74\(de\|2.7\(fm\|W, and
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.B "\-c\ +404121\-0740240"
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specifies 40\(de\|41\(fm\|21\(sd\|N, 74\(de\|2\(fm\|40\(sd\|W.
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If
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.I coord
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is not one of the documented forms, the resulting behavior is unspecified.
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.TP
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.BI "\-n " limit
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When
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.B \-c
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is used, display the closest
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.I limit
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locations (default 10).
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.PP
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Applications should not assume that
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.BR tzselect 's
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output matches the user's political preferences.
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.RE
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.TP
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.B "\-\-help"
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Output help information and exit.
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.TP
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.B "\-\-version"
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Output version information and exit.
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.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
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.TP
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\f3AWK\fP
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Name of a Posix-compliant
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.I awk
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program (default:
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.BR awk ).
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.TP
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\f3TZDIR\fP
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Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default:
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.BR /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo ).
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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\f2TZDIR\fP\f3/iso3166.tab\fP
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Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
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.TP
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\f2TZDIR\fP\f3/zone.tab\fP
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Tables of country codes, latitude and longitude, zone names, and
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descriptive comments.
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.TP
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\f2TZDIR\fP\f3/\fP\f2TZ\fP
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Time zone data file for time zone \f2TZ\fP.
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.SH "EXIT STATUS"
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The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user,
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nonzero otherwise.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)
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.\" @(#)tzselect.8 8.2
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.\" This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
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.\" 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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