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 Time zone items
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    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.
 
    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.
 

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(tar) Time of day items

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