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Support routines for calculation of local timezone and DST time
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offset based on information provided in the environment variable TZ.
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+ There are various ways for specifying the timezone details using the
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+ TZ variable. The more information is provided, the better results.
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+ As an example, the following setting provides full information
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+ including details for DST on/off switching date and time:
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+ TZ=CET-1CEST,3,-1,0,7200,10,-1,0,10800,3600
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+ (CET timezone is 1 hour in advance from UTC, there is DST called CEST,
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+ DST starts on the last Sunday of March at 2am and finishes on the last
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+ Sunday of October at 3am, the DST difference is 1 hour).
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+ However, this is by no means the only supported syntax.
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See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution,
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for details about the copyright.
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