Timezone item

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7.4: Timezone item

A timezone item specifies an international timezone, indicated by a small set of letters. Any included period is ignored. Military timezone designations use a single letter. Currently, only integral zone hours may be represented in a timezone item. See the previous section for a finer control over the timezone correction.

Here are many non-daylight-savings-time timezones, indexed by the zone hour value.

+000	``GMT`' for Greenwich Mean, ``UT`' or ``UTC`' for Universal (Coordinated), ``WET`' for Western European and ``Z`' for militaries.
+100	``WAT`' for West Africa and ``A`' for militaries.
+200	``AT`' for Azores and ``B`' for militaries.
+300	``C`' for militaries.
+400	``AST`' for Atlantic Standard and ``D`' for militaries.
+500	``E`' for militaries and ``EST`' for Eastern Standard.
+600	``CST`' for Central Standard and ``F`' for militaries.
+700	``G`' for militaries and ``MST`' for Mountain Standard.
+800	``H`' for militaries and ``PST`' for Pacific Standard.
+900	``I`' for militaries and ``YST`' for Yukon Standard.
+1000	``AHST`' for Alaska-Hawaii Standard, ``CAT`' for Central Alaska, ``HST`' for Hawaii Standard and ``K`' for militaries.
+1100	``L`' for militaries and ``NT`' for Nome.
+1200	``IDLW`' for International Date Line West and ``M`' for militaries.
-100	``CET`' for Central European, ``FWT`' for French Winter, ``MET`' for Middle European, ``MEWT`' for Middle European Winter, ``N`' for militaries and ``SWT`' for Swedish Winter.
-200	``EET`' for Eastern European, USSR Zone 1 and ``O`' for militaries.
-300	``BT`' for Baghdad, USSR Zone 2 and ``P`' for militaries.
-400	``Q`' for militaries and ``ZP4`' for USSR Zone 3.
-500	``R`' for militaries and ``ZP5`' for USSR Zone 4.
-600	``S`' for militaries and ``ZP6`' for USSR Zone 5.
-700	``T`' for militaries and ``WAST`' for West Australian Standard.
-800	``CCT`' for China Coast, USSR Zone 7 and ``U`' for militaries.
-900	``JST`' for Japan Standard, USSR Zone 8 and ``V`' for militaries.
-1000	``EAST`' for East Australian Standard, ``GST`' for Guam Standard, USSR Zone 9 and ``W`' for militaries.
-1100	``X`' for militaries.
-1200	``IDLE`' for International Date Line East, ``NZST`' for New Zealand Standard, ``NZT`' for New Zealand and ``Y`' for militaries.

Here are many DST timezones, indexed by the zone hour value. Also, by following a non-DST timezone by the string `DST' in a separate word (that is, separated by some whitespace), the corresponding DST timezone may be specified.

0	``BST`' for British Summer.
+400	``ADT`' for Atlantic Daylight.
+500	``EDT`' for Eastern Daylight.
+600	``CDT`' for Central Daylight.
+700	``MDT`' for Mountain Daylight.
+800	``PDT`' for Pacific Daylight.
+900	``YDT`' for Yukon Daylight.
+1000	``HDT`' for Hawaii Daylight.
-100	``MEST`' for Middle European Summer, ``MESZ`' for Middle European Summer, ``SST`' for Swedish Summer and ``FST`' for French Summer.
-700	``WADT`' for West Australian Daylight.
-1000	``EADT`' for Eastern Australian Daylight.
-1200	``NZDT`' for New Zealand Daylight.