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 28.4 Time zone items
 ====================
 
 A "time zone item" specifies an international time zone, indicated by a
 small set of letters, e.g., `UTC' or `Z' for Coordinated Universal
 Time.  Any included periods are ignored.  By following a
 non-daylight-saving time zone by the string `DST' in a separate word
 (that is, separated by some white space), the corresponding daylight
 saving time zone may be specified.  Alternatively, a
 non-daylight-saving time zone can be followed by a time zone
 correction, to add the two values.  This is normally done only for
 `UTC'; for example, `UTC+05:30' is equivalent to `+05:30'.
 
    Time zone items other than `UTC' and `Z' are obsolescent and are not
 recommended, because they are ambiguous; for example, `EST' has a
 different meaning in Australia than in the United States.  Instead,
 it's better to use unambiguous numeric time zone corrections like
 `-0500', as described in the previous section.
 
    If neither a time zone item nor a time zone correction is supplied,
 time stamps are interpreted using the rules of the default time zone
 ( Specifying time zone rules).
 

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