time zone database
C3013
concept
A time zone database is a structured collection of records that defines the world’s time zones, including their historical and current UTC offsets, daylight saving rules, and regional identifiers, to enable accurate time conversions across locations and periods.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| time zone identifier | 9 |
| IANA time zone | 7 |
| time zone database canonical | 2 |
| IANA time zone database | 1 |
| locale data repository | 1 |
| obsolete time zone identifier | 1 |
| time zone library | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: time zone database
Generated description
A time zone database is a structured collection of records that defines the world’s time zones, including their historical and current UTC offsets, daylight saving rules, and regional identifiers, to enable accurate time conversions across locations and periods.
Instances (15)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Africa/Kinshasa | IANA time zone |
| America/Chicago | time zone identifier |
| Unicode CLDR | locale data repository |
| tzcode | time zone library |
| Europe/Rome | time zone identifier |
| America/Indiana/Indianapolis | time zone identifier |
| Olson database | — |
| America/Toronto | time zone identifier |
| Europe/Warsaw | time zone identifier |
| Europe/Berlin | time zone identifier |
| IANA time zone database | — |
| Europe/Paris | time zone identifier |
| Europe/Oslo | time zone identifier |
| Europe/Brussels | time zone identifier |
| Pacific/Truk | obsolete time zone identifier |