+ "Alist of zoneinfo-style time zones and places for `display-time-world'.
+Each element has the form (TIMEZONE LABEL).
+TIMEZONE should be a string of the form AREA/LOCATION, where AREA is
+the name of a region -- a continent or ocean, and LOCATION is the name
+of a specific location, e.g., a city, within that region.
+LABEL is a string to display as the label of that TIMEZONE's time."
+ :group 'display-time
+ :type '(repeat (list string string))
+ :version "23.1")
+
+(defcustom legacy-style-world-list
+ '(("PST8PDT" "Seattle")
+ ("EST5EDT" "New York")
+ ("GMT0BST" "London")
+ ("CET-1CDT" "Paris")
+ ("IST-5:30" "Bangalore")
+ ("JST-9" "Tokyo"))
+ "Alist of traditional-style time zones and places for `display-time-world'.
+Each element has the form (TIMEZONE LABEL).
+TIMEZONE should be a string of the form:
+
+ std[+|-]offset[dst[offset][,date[/time],date[/time]]]
+
+See the documentation of the TZ environment variable on your system,
+for more details about the format of TIMEZONE.
+LABEL is a string to display as the label of that TIMEZONE's time."
+ :group 'display-time
+ :type '(repeat (list string string))
+ :version "23.1")
+
+(defcustom display-time-world-list
+ ;; Determine if zoneinfo style timezones are supported by testing that
+ ;; America/New York and Europe/London return different timezones.
+ (let ((old-tz (getenv "TZ"))
+ gmt nyt)
+ (unwind-protect
+ (progn
+ (setenv "TZ" "America/New_York")
+ (setq nyt (format-time-string "%z"))
+ (setenv "TZ" "Europe/London")
+ (setq gmt (format-time-string "%z")))
+ (setenv "TZ" old-tz))
+ (if (string-equal nyt gmt)
+ legacy-style-world-list
+ zoneinfo-style-world-list))
+ "Alist of time zones and places for `display-time-world' to display.