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On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:10:13 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:

> In the Ada spirit of preventing preventable mistakes, you can
> prevent this kind of mistake by writing time offsets as hours from
> UTC instead of cryptic acronyms.

UTC is good. Next best is to use timezone names from the tz database.
E.g. “CET” works (regardless of daylight saving) as a shorter
alternative to “Europe/Brussels”, as do things like
“America/New_York”, and “Pacific/Auckland” (hello).

If in doubt what names to use, have a look in /usr/share/zoneinfo on
just about any Linux system or compatible.

Here <https://gitlab.com/ldo/conv-date> is a simple (less than 100
lines) shell script that will show and convert times using any of
these valid timezone names. See the accompanying man page for details.