
TimeZone represents a region's offset from UTC and its daylight savings time rules. TimeZones are historical - UTC offset and DST rules may change depending on the year. The Fan implementation of historical time zones is optimized to handle only year boundaries (so some historical changes which don't occur on year boundaries may not be 100% accurate).
The Fan time zone database and naming model is based on the ZoneInfo database used by UNIX and Java (also known as the Olsen database). All time zones have both a simple name and a fullName. The fullName
is the full identifier used in the zoneinfo database such as "America/New_York". The simple name is the city name only such as "New_York".
Slots
- current
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static TimeZone current()
Get the current default TimeZone of the VM. The default timezone is configured by the Java or .NET runtime or it can be manually configured in "sys.props" with the key "fan.timezone" and any value accepted by fromStr. Once Fan is booted, the default timezone cannot be changed.
- dstAbbr
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Get the abbreviated name during daylight savings time or null if daylight savings time not observed.
- dstOffset
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Get the duration of time which will be added to local standard time to get wall time during daylight savings time (often 1hr). If daylight savings time is not observed then return null.
- fromStr
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static TimeZone fromStr(Str name, Bool checked := true)
Find a time zone by name from the built-in database. Either the simple name like "New_York" or the zoneinfo full name "America/New_York" may be used. If the time zone doesn't exist and checked is false then return null, otherwise throw ParseErr.
- fullName
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Str fullName()
Get the full name of this time zone as defined by the zoneinfo database. These names are formatted as "contintent/location" where location is a major city within the time zone region. Examples of full names are "America/New_York" and "Europe/London".
- listFullNames
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static Str[] listFullNames()
List all zoneinfo (Olsen database) full names of the time zones available in the local time zone database. This list is the full names only such as "America/New_York" and "Europe/London".
- listNames
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static Str[] listNames()
List the names of all the time zones available in the local time zone database. This database is stored in "{home}/lib/timezone.ftz" as a binary file. This list contains only the simple names such as "New_York" and "London".
- name
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Str name()
Get the identifier of this time zone in the time zone database. Name is the city name portion of the zoneinfo fullName identifier such as "New_York" or "London".
- offset
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Get the duration of time added to UTC to compute standard time in this time zone. The offset is independent of daylight savings time - during daylight savings the actual offset is this value plus dstOffset.
- stdAbbr
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Get the abbreviated name during standard time.
- toStr
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override Str toStr()
Return name.
- utc
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static TimeZone utc()
Get the time zone which represents UTC.