Time zone conversion C API on Linux, anyone?

Question

I\'m looking for something that I presumed would be very simple - given local Unix time in a specific time zone (specified as a string, e.g., \"America/New_York\" - note tha

Answer 1

From tzfile(5), which documents the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo (on my system) in gruesome detail:

It seems that timezone uses tzfile internally, but glibc refuses to expose it to userspace. This is most likely because the standardised functions are more useful and portable, and actually documented by glibc.

Again, this is probably not what you're looking for (ie. an API), but the information is there and you can parse it without too much pain.