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A.6.4 Time zone items
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A "time zone item" specifies an international time zone, indicated by a
small set of letters, e.g., `UTC' or `Z' for Coordinated Universal
Time. Any included periods are ignored. By following a
non-daylight-saving time zone by the string `DST' in a separate word
(that is, separated by some white space), the corresponding daylight
saving time zone may be specified. Alternatively, a
non-daylight-saving time zone can be followed by a time zone
correction, to add the two values. This is normally done only for
`UTC'; for example, `UTC+05:30' is equivalent to `+05:30'.
Time zone items other than `UTC' and `Z' are obsolescent and are not
recommended, because they are ambiguous; for example, `EST' has a
different meaning in Australia than in the United States. Instead,
it's better to use unambiguous numeric time zone corrections like
`-0500', as described in the previous section.
If neither a time zone item nor a time zone correction is supplied,
time stamps are interpreted using the rules of the default time zone
( Specifying time zone rules).
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