On 21/06/2024 11:45, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
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).
So you just believe that "system" is confusing. However other
configuration files may be taken into account, e.g.
~/.config/ktimezonedrc for *default* timezone in KDE session of the
specific user. From my point of view, adding "system-wide" to "default
timezone" leaves less room for ambiguity.
It is still important that neither TZ environment nor /etc/localtime
must be respected by all processes. Anyway POSIX and libc are not
designed for applications that need to work with multiple timezones
simultaneously, so any system-wide hints may be disregarded.
I think, you are biased treating "system" as tightly built-in while most
of others assume "system-wide".
