Makes a time zone from name.

Naming follows the convention used in /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/ distributed on Linux, e.g. "Australia/Sydney".

See available_time_zones or checking usable time zone names at runtime.

Alternatively, if you are using timere.tz.full (the default implementation for timere.tz.data), then you can also see available-time-zones.txt for available time zones.

• raises Invalid_argument

  if make fails

This is mainly used for when you only have an offset to work with, and you don't need to do any accurate search over time zones.

One use of this is to create a time zone for to_string functions.