> CST is a sloppy term; It's not though, it means "Central Standard Time", which is UTC-06:00. It is sometimes sloppily misused to mean "Central Time", which

> CST is a sloppy term; It's not though, it means "Central Standard Time", which is UTC-06:00. It is sometimes sloppily misused to mean "Central Time", which is a sloppy term, meaning either UTC-06:00 (CST) or UTC-05:00 (CDT) depending on the time of year and where you are in the country. > or America/Indiana/Indianapolis (for the weird one that doesn't use DST) 1. You mean `America/Indiana/Knox` or `America/Indiana/Tell_City` or historically almost any of the other `America/Indiana/…` zoneinfo files except for Indianapolis. Indianapolis has "always" (since 1961) been "Eastern" rather than "Central", it's other non-Indianapolis regions of Indiana that have been "Central, but without DST". 2. But regardless, it's outdated; all of Indiana has been doing DST since 2006; mostly Eastern (EDT/EST), but a few western parts of the state are Central (CDT/CST). > (While researching this comment, I found that Indiana has at least 8 different time zones, so ... good luck with that.) They only still exist for pre-2007 dates; for post-2007 dates they're all equivalent to either America/Chicago (…/Knox and …/Tell_City) or America/New_York (the other 6 of them). > I don't know if you can type things like "CST" into Debian, but I don't think you can. It's inconsistent. You can type in EST or MST, but not CST.