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Re: a short reference of the time zone abbreviation in CONFIG_SITE_ENV |
From: |
Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> |
To: |
<[email protected]> |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:16:37 -0500 |
Hi Han,
On 09/22/2017 03:00 AM, Jeong Han Lee wrote:
> # Time service:
> # EPICS_TIMEZONE
> # Local timezone info for vxWorks and RTEMS. The format is
> # <name>::<minutesWest>:<start daylight>:<end daylight>
> # where the start and end are mmddhh - that is month,day,hour
> # e.g. for ANL in 2018: EPICS_TIMEZONE=CUS::360:031102:110402
> # The future dates below assume the rules don't get changed;
> # see http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2018.html to check.
> #
> ---- snip snip -----
>
> I think, it uses the time zone abbreviation as <name>. And I could
> find them quite easily and quickly, However, if we can have the link in
> that file (CONFIG_SITE_ENV) in the same way of DST, for example,
>
> ```
> <name> is the Time Zone Abbreviation;
> see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations
> ```
> it may give users an easy way to access them.
The <name> part of that string is arbitrary; the OS only uses it in the
output generated when converting a timestamp to a string with a %Z
format string, so it doesn't really matter what you put in there as long
as you understand that name locally (assuming you even use %Z in your
conversion formats). With that in mind I don't think we need to provide
a link to a standard list of time-zone names, but I will document the
fact that <name> is used only for %Z. Here's my new wording:
> # Time service:
> # EPICS_TIMEZONE
> # Local timezone info for vxWorks and RTEMS. The format is
> # <name>::<minutesWest>:<startDST>:<endDST>
> # where <name> is only used by strftime() for %Z conversions,
> # and <startDST> and <endDST> are mmddhh - that is month,day,hour
> # e.g. for ANL in 2018: EPICS_TIMEZONE=CUS::360:031102:110402
> # The future dates below assume the rules don't get changed;
> # see http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2018.html to check.
Is that a sufficient solution?
- Andrew
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