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TZFILE(5)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		     TZFILE(5)

NAME
       tzfile - timezone information

SYNOPSIS
       #include <tzfile.h>

DESCRIPTION
       The  timezone  information  files used by tzset(3) begin with the magic
       characters "TZif" to identify then as timezone information files,  fol‐
       lowed  by  sixteen bytes reserved for future use, followed by six four-
       byte values of type long, written in a "standard" byte order (the high-
       order byte of the value is written first).  These values are, in order:

       tzh_ttisgmtcnt
	      The number of UTC/local indicators stored in the file.

       tzh_ttisstdcnt
	      The number of standard/wall indicators stored in the file.

       tzh_leapcnt
	      The number of leap seconds for which data is stored in the file.

       tzh_timecnt
	      The number of "transition times" for which data is stored in the
	      file.

       tzh_typecnt
	      The number of "local time types" for which data is stored in the
	      file (must not be zero).

       tzh_charcnt
	      The  number  of  characters  of  "timezone abbreviation strings"
	      stored in the file.

       The above header is followed by tzh_timecnt four-byte  values  of  type
       long,  sorted  in  ascending order.  These values are written in "stan‐
       dard" byte order.  Each is used as a transition time  (as  returned  by
       time(2)) at which the rules for computing local time change.  Next come
       tzh_timecnt one-byte values of type unsigned char; each one tells which
       of  the	different types of "local time" types described in the file is
       associated with the same-indexed transition time.  These	 values	 serve
       as  indices into an array of ttinfo structures that appears next in the
       file; these structures are defined as follows:

	   struct ttinfo {
	       long	    tt_gmtoff;
	       int	    tt_isdst;
	       unsigned int tt_abbrind;
	   };

       Each structure is written as a four-byte value for  tt_gmtoff  of  type
       long,  in  a  standard  byte  order,  followed  by a one-byte value for
       tt_isdst and a one-byte	value  for  tt_abbrind.	  In  each  structure,
       tt_gmtoff  gives	 the  number  of  seconds to be added to UTC, tt_isdst
       tells whether tm_isdst should be set by	localtime(3),  and  tt_abbrind
       serves  as  an index into the array of timezone abbreviation characters
       that follow the ttinfo structure(s) in the file.

       Then there are tzh_leapcnt pairs of four-byte values, written in	 stan‐
       dard  byte  order;  the	first  value  of  each pair gives the time (as
       returned by time(2)) at which a leap second occurs;  the	 second	 gives
       the  total  number  of leap seconds to be applied after the given time.
       The pairs of values are sorted in ascending order by time.

       Then there are tzh_ttisstdcnt standard/wall indicators, each stored  as
       a  one-byte  value;  they  tell whether the transition times associated
       with local time types were specified as standard	 time  or  wall	 clock
       time, and are used when a timezone file is used in handling POSIX-style
       timezone environment variables.

       Finally, there are tzh_ttisgmtcnt UTC/local indicators, each stored  as
       a  one-byte  value;  they  tell whether the transition times associated
       with local time types were specified as UTC or local time, and are used
       when  a timezone file is used in handling POSIX-style timezone environ‐
       ment variables.

       Localtime uses the first standard-time ttinfo structure in the file (or
       simply  the  first  ttinfo  structure in the absence of a standard-time
       structure) if either tzh_timecnt is zero or the time argument  is  less
       than the first transition time recorded in the file.

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

				  1996-06-05			     TZFILE(5)
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