The tz_metazone_names
table contains localized time zone names for all
metazones (e.g., America/Eastern
). There can be a variety of time zone
names, comprising long and short forms (e.g., Eastern Time
and ET
) and
this is further segmented by generic, standard, and daylight forms (an
example, using short forms, is ET
, EST
, and EDT
). There are
465 rows and a column for
each metazone (comprising 159 columns; the
locale
column is first).