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NAME

timezone — return the timezone abbreviation

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

char *
timezone(int zone, int dst);

DESCRIPTION

This interface is available for compatibility only and will disappear in a future software release; it is impossible to reliably map timezone's arguments to a time zone abbreviation. See ctime(3); see tzset(3) for the new definition of this interface.

The timezone() function returns a pointer to a time zone abbreviation for the specified zone and dst values. Zone is the number of minutes west of GMT and dst is non-zero if daylight savings time is in effect.

SEE ALSO

ctime(3), tzset(3)

HISTORY

A timezone() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
April 19, 1994 NetBSD 7.0
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