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- tzfile - time zone information
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- The time zone information files used by _t_z_s_e_t(3) begin
- with bytes reserved for future use, followed by six four-
- byte values of type lloonngg, written in a ``standard'' byte
- order (the high-order byte of the value is written first).
- These values are, in order:
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- _t_z_h___t_t_i_s_g_m_t_c_n_t
- The number of GMT/local indicators stored in the
- file.
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- _t_z_h___t_t_i_s_s_t_d_c_n_t
- The number of standard/wall indicators stored in
- the file.
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- _t_z_h___l_e_a_p_c_n_t
- The number of leap seconds for which data is stored
- in the file.
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- _t_z_h___t_i_m_e_c_n_t
- The number of "transition times" for which data is
- stored in the file.
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- _t_z_h___t_y_p_e_c_n_t
- The number of "local time types" for which data is
- stored in the file (must not be zero).
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- _t_z_h___c_h_a_r_c_n_t
- The number of characters of "time zone abbreviation
- strings" stored in the file.
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- The above header is followed by _t_z_h___t_i_m_e_c_n_t four-byte val-
- ues of type lloonngg, sorted in ascending order. These values
- are written in ``standard'' byte order. Each is used as a
- transition time (as returned by _t_i_m_e(2)) at which the
- rules for computing local time change. Next come
- _t_z_h___t_i_m_e_c_n_t one-byte values of type uunnssiiggnneedd cchhaarr; 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 _t_t_i_n_f_o structures that appears next in
- the file; these structures are defined as follows:
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- struct ttinfo {
- long tt_gmtoff;
- int tt_isdst;
- unsigned int tt_abbrind;
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- Each structure is written as a four-byte value for
- _t_t___g_m_t_o_f_f of type lloonngg, in a standard byte order, followed
- by a one-byte value for _t_t___i_s_d_s_t and a one-byte value for
- _t_t___a_b_b_r_i_n_d. In each structure, _t_t___g_m_t_o_f_f gives the number
- of seconds to be added to GMT, _t_t___i_s_d_s_t tells whether
- _t_m___i_s_d_s_t should be set by _l_o_c_a_l_t_i_m_e _(_3_) and _t_t___a_b_b_r_i_n_d
- serves as an index into the array of time zone abbrevia-
- tion characters that follow the _t_t_i_n_f_o structure(s) in the
- file.
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- Then there are _t_z_h___l_e_a_p_c_n_t pairs of four-byte values,
- written in standard byte order; the first value of each
- pair gives the time (as returned by _t_i_m_e_(_2_)_) at which a
- leap second occurs; the second gives the _t_o_t_a_l number of
- leap seconds to be applied after the given time. The
- pairs of values are sorted in ascending order by time.
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- Then there are _t_z_h___t_t_i_s_s_t_d_c_n_t 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 time zone file is used in handling POSIX-style
- time zone environment variables.
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- Finally there are _t_z_h___t_t_i_s_g_m_t_c_n_t GMT/local indicators,
- each stored as a one-byte value; they tell whether the
- transition times associated with local time types were
- specified as GMT or local time, and are used when a time
- zone file is used in handling POSIX-style time zone envi-
- ronment variables.
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- _L_o_c_a_l_t_i_m_e uses the first standard-time _t_t_i_n_f_o structure in
- the file (or simply the first _t_t_i_n_f_o structure in the
- absence of a standard-time structure) if either
- _t_z_h___t_i_m_e_c_n_t is zero or the time argument is less than the
- first transition time recorded in the file.
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