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Old 11-25-2005
Finding timezone information
how to extract current/existing timezone information ??
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Old 11-25-2005
i am not sure whether this is ur requirement

echo $TZ
would retrieve current timing zone


else if you are specific abt zoneinformation
check in
/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/
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Old 11-25-2005
What file is used varied from system to system and this is the c programming forum. The various date/time routines call tzset() to get the timezone info and you can call it directly. Then, the external variables timezone, daylight, and tzname should contain the timezone info. See "man tzset".
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