Linux- Windows Timezone Mapping?

Question

All the Timezone in Windows are displayed in such a way like

(GMT+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney,

GMT and Offset and the place. In turn ,

Answer 1

If all the files have the signs reversed, then the files you are looking at are forward mapping offsets, while what you are probably more familiar with is reverse mapping offsets.

Windows typically uses the local timezone for the machine's internal time, so it needs timezone files which can translate back to UTC. Linux typically uses UTC as the machine's internal time, so it needs timezone files which can translate to local time.

Since the offsets for the two machines describe complimentary but opposite directions of time, it stands to reason that the time zone files are inversely related to each other. In other words, if you pick up a set of zone files from one, the other set will be negative.