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On Linux, I need to find the currently configured timezone as an Olson location. I want my (C or C++) code to be portable to as many Linux systems as possible.
For example. I live in London, so my current Olson location is "Europe/London". I'm not interested in timezone IDs like "BST", "EST" or whatever.
Debian and Ubuntu have a file /etc/timezone that contains this information, but I don't think I can rely on that file always being there, can I? Gnome has a function oobs_time_config_get_timezone() which also returns the right string, but I want my code to work on systems without Gnome.
So, what's the best general way to get the currently configured timezone as an Olson location, on Linux?