On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 09:32:10AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > 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)
The default time zone (i.e. that one which is used when some process calls for one and hasn't specified one itself). > 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. It's a log time ago, but we were a shop with a few pretty knowledgeable folks, so I guess we first tried something like that. > 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> It's a complex matter, yes. Food for nerds :) Cheers -- t
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