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Appendix D. Timezones

D.1. Timezones
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The API maps Windows Standard Format timezone names to tz database format when specifying a timezone for a virtual machine or VM template. This means the API only accepts certain tz database codes, which the following table lists:
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Table D.1. Accepted tz database codes
tz database Format Windows Standard Format
Africa/Cairo Egypt Standard Time
Africa/Casablanca Morocco Standard Time
Africa/Johannesburg South Africa Standard Time
Africa/Lagos W. Central Africa Standard Time
Africa/Nairobi E. Africa Standard Time
Africa/Reykjavik Greenwich Standard Time
Africa/Windhoek Namibia Standard Time
America/Anchorage Alaskan Standard Time
America/Bogota SA Pacific Standard Time
America/Buenos_Aires Argentina Standard Time
America/Caracas Venezuela Standard Time
America/Chicago Central Standard Time
America/Chihuahua Mexico Standard Time
America/Chihuahua Mountain Standard Time
America/Denver Mountain Standard Time
America/Godthab Greenland Standard Time
America/Guatemala Central America Standard Time
America/Halifax Atlantic Standard Time
America/La_Paz SA Western Standard Time
America/Los_Angeles Pacific Standard Time
America/Manaus Central Brazilian Standard Time
America/Mexico_City Central Standard Time
America/Mexico_City Mexico Standard Time
America/Montevideo Montevideo Standard Time
America/New_York Eastern Standard Time
America/Phoenix US Mountain Standard Time
America/Regina Canada Central Standard Time
America/Santiago Pacific SA Standard Time
America/Sao_Paulo E. South America Standard Time
America/St_Johns Newfoundland Standard Time
America/Tijuana Pacific Standard Time
Asia/Amman Jordan Standard Time
Asia/Baghdad Arabic Standard Time
Asia/Baku Azerbaijan Standard Time
Asia/Bangkok SE Asia Standard Time
Asia/Beirut Middle East Standard Time
Asia/Calcutta India Standard Time
Asia/Colombo Sri Lanka Standard Time
Asia/Dhaka Central Asia Standard Time
Asia/Dubai Arabian Standard Time
Asia/Irkutsk North Asia East Standard Time
Asia/Jerusalem Israel Standard Time
Asia/Kabul Afghanistan Standard Time
Asia/Karachi Pakistan Standard Time
Asia/Katmandu Nepal Standard Time
Asia/Krasnoyarsk North Asia Standard Time
Asia/Novosibirsk N. Central Asia Standard Time
Asia/Rangoon Myanmar Standard Time
Asia/Riyadh Arab Standard Time
Asia/Seoul Korea Standard Time
Asia/Shanghai China Standard Time
Asia/Singapore Singapore Standard Time
Asia/Taipei Taipei Standard Time
Asia/Tashkent West Asia Standard Time
Asia/Tehran Iran Standard Time
Asia/Tokyo Tokyo Standard Time
Asia/Vladivostok Vladivostok Standard Time
Asia/Yakutsk Yakutsk Standard Time
Asia/Yekaterinburg Ekaterinburg Standard Time
Asia/Yerevan Armenian Standard Time
Asia/Yerevan Caucasus Standard Time
Atlantic/Azores Azores Standard Time
Atlantic/Cape_Verde Cape Verde Standard Time
Atlantic/South_Georgia Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
Australia/Adelaide Cen. Australia Standard Time
Australia/Brisbane E. Australia Standard Time
Australia/Darwin AUS Central Standard Time
Australia/Hobart Tasmania Standard Time
Australia/Perth W. Australia Standard Time
Australia/Sydney AUS Eastern Standard Time
Etc/GMT-3 Georgian Standard Time
Etc/GMT+12 Dateline Standard Time
Etc/GMT+3 SA Eastern Standard Time
Etc/GMT+5 US Eastern Standard Time
Europe/Berlin W. Europe Standard Time
Europe/Budapest Central Europe Standard Time
Europe/Istanbul GTB Standard Time
Europe/Kiev FLE Standard Time
Europe/London GMT Standard Time
Europe/Minsk E. Europe Standard Time
Europe/Moscow Russian Standard Time
Europe/Paris Romance Standard Time
Europe/Warsaw Central European Standard Time
Indian/Mauritius Mauritius Standard Time
Pacific/Apia Samoa Standard Time
Pacific/Auckland New Zealand Standard Time
Pacific/Fiji Fiji Standard Time
Pacific/Guadalcanal Central Pacific Standard Time
Pacific/Honolulu Hawaiian Standard Time
Pacific/Port_Moresby West Pacific Standard Time
Pacific/Tongatapu Tonga Standard Time
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