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- README for tzdata
- -----------------
-
- This package contains data required for the implementation of
- standard local time for many representative locations around the
- globe.
-
- Two different versions are provided:
- - The "posix" version is based on the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
- - The "right" version is based on the International Atomic Time (TAI),
- and it includes the leap seconds.
-
- Most systems have their hardware clock set either to UTC, or to a
- timezone with a fixed difference with UTC. Therefore the default
- version provided by this package is the "posix" one.
-
- The TZDIR environment variable, when used together with the TZ one,
- forces the system to use one of the two versions. Examples:
-
- - TZDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix TZ=Europe/Paris on a system with
- hardware clock set to UTC.
- - TZDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo/right TZ=Europe/Paris on a system with
- hardware clock set to TAI.
-
- -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:27:09 +0200
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