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Full timezone name

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Full timezone name
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:27:36 +0800

On (info "(coreutils) Time conversion specifiers")

‘%Z’
     alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., ‘EDT’), or nothing if no
     time zone is determinable.  See ‘%z’ for how it is determined.

Also mention something about how to get the full timezone name.

E.g., show instead of CST: Central Standard Time, or China Standard Time, or
China Central Standard Time, etc.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 52453-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52453: Full timezone name
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:14:07 -0800

On 12/12/21 07:27, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Also mention something about how to get the full timezone name.

Unfortunately at the coreutils level that information is not available 
in any portable or reliable way.
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bug#52453; Package coreutils. (Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:25:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 52453-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52453: Full timezone name
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:24:31 +0800

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:
PE> On 12/12/21 07:27, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Also mention something about how to get the full timezone name.

PE> Unfortunately at the coreutils level that information is not available
PE> in any portable or reliable way.

OK. Good. At the bottom of the page do mention that.
Else people wonder why it is not one of the choices.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:24:06 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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