April 19, 1994 TIMEZONE 3

### NAME

timezone - return the timezone abbreviation

### LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

### SYNOPSIS

```char``*` timezone(```int zone``, int dst`)

### DESCRIPTION

This interface is available for compatibility only and will disappear in a future software release; it is impossible to reliably map timezone's arguments to a time zone abbreviation. See ctime(3); see tzset(3) for the new definition of this interface.

The timezone(``) function returns a pointer to a time zone abbreviation for the specified zone and dst values. Zone is the number of minutes west of GMT and dst is non-zero if daylight savings time is in effect.

### SEE ALSO

ctime(3), tzset(3)

### HISTORY

A timezone(``) function appeared in Version 7 `AT&T UNIX`.