tidszonnamn
Tidszonnamn is a Swedish term used to refer to the label that identifies a time zone in computing and data contexts. Most commonly, it refers to the IANA time zone database identifier, a region-based name such as Europe/Stockholm or America/New_York that encodes the standard time and daylight saving rules used in that region. Some systems also store a human-friendly display name that is localized for the user’s language. The tidszonnamn is used by software to convert timestamps between zones, schedule events, and present local times to users.
Time zone identification relies on canonical identifiers from the IANA tz database, which is maintained and
Users typically see a localized display name, while internal processing uses the canonical identifier. Examples include
See also time zone, UTC, daylight saving time, IANA time zone database.