How to get time zone name from an offset?

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I don’t mean to be rude, but seriously – How many times and how loudly do I have to shout this?

Time Zone != Offset

I mean – it’s only in the timezone tag header, and the body of the timezone tag wiki:

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And it’s not like I haven’t already answered this question, or this one, or addded it to the best practices doc, or littered what must be hundreds of other posts with “Time Zone != Offset” comments…

I know, maybe I’ll go talk about this at a high profile developer conference with “Time Zone != Offset” on my shirt just so it sinks in. Oh wait – done that already too.

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Apologies in advance for the snarky answer, but close as duplicate of duplicate of duplicate just wasn’t as much fun.

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