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Tz database

The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones and rules for observing daylight saving time, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems. Paul Eggert has been its editor and maintainer since 2005, with the organizational backing of ICANN. The tz database is also known as tzdata, the…

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Tz database

Nodes136
Edges135
Triples128
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014706
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Tz database

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related to Use in software systems · 71
Tz database → AIX, Androidseveral, API, Archived, BeOS, BigEasy/TimeZone, Boost, BSD-derived, Cygwin, Dart/Flutter Timezone, DateTime, December, DragonFly BSD, Erlang, Free Pascal, FreeBSD, GNU, Haiku, Haskell, IANA Time Zone
related to Maintenance · 19
Tz database → Arthur David Olson, Debian, End, IANA FTP, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Maintaining, Paul Eggert, Procedures, Proposed, RFC, Source, The, The IETF, Time Zone Database, Typically, Usenet, Wikisource-logo
related to General · 10
Tz database → IANA, IANAtz, ITU, Jon Udell, Legal, Official IANA, Olson/Zoneinfo/tz, PDF, The, UCLA
related to Use in other standards · 5
Tz database → CLDR, Data Repository, However, The Unicode Common Locale, UN/LOCODE
related to Definition of a timezone · 4
Tz database → Therefore, This, UTC, Within
related to Boundaries of timezones · 3
Tz database → Evan Siroky, Geographical, GeoJSON
related to Data stored for each zone · 3
Tz database → For, The, Zones
related to File formats · 3
Tz database → APIs, For, The
related to Man pages · 3
Tz database → Linux Administration, Linux File Formats Manual, Privileged Commands Manual
related to Timezones · 3
Tz database → Each, The, UTC

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database time zone tz timezone zones used names daylight saving name changes area location use 1970 iana america standard rules

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Tz databaseis acollaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones and rules for observing daylight saving time0.90text
MySQLinstance offor support of third-party applications0.80text
but do not use it themselvesinstance offor support of third-party applications0.80text
Tz databaserelated to Boundaries of timezonesGeographical0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Boundaries of timezonesEvan Siroky0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Boundaries of timezonesGeoJSON0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Data stored for each zoneFor0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Data stored for each zoneThe0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Data stored for each zoneZones0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Definition of a timezoneWithin0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Definition of a timezoneThis0.60section
Tz databaserelated to Definition of a timezoneUTC0.60section

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