On 20/06/2024 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
"the system's time zone" (of which some, me included, say "there's no such thing", and others disagree 🙂
What term is appropriate in your opinion do describe the setting stored as the /etc/localtime symlink? localtime(5)
On 19/06/2024 11:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Especially that bit with the "system timezone". Reminds me of some remote past, where a system actually had a timezone (and changed its clock twice a year). Back then we used to set all our networked Windows boxen to a time zone without summer time change (ISTR it was Monrovia/Liberia) to avoid having our Makefiles freaking out twice a year.
I recall a checkbox do disable DST in Windows 95 or Windows 98, so perhaps searching for a timezone without DST was not necessary. By the way, <https://stackoverflow.com/tags/timezone/info> describes another style of identifiers in the Microsoft TZ DB. At certain point I have realized that "time zone" and "timezone" have a bit different meaning in the case of the IANA database <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html>
