On 01/04/2015 at 10:48, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > Bryan J Smith wrote: > >> Legacy kinda like the POSIX "TZ" environment is still there, even >> though it is strongly recommended to _never_ set it at all. > I don't buy this. How do you propose a user should set a different time > zone from the system time zone? E.g., because a user in Australia is > ssh'ing into a machine that is in the UK, with the system time zone set > to “Europe/London”, but still wants to see times and dates according to > their local timezone. > > The “timedatectl” command (or for that matter the “tzconfig” command) > doesn't seem to support that idea. > > Anselm
Even easier than that: the same timezone often has different national denominations. For instance, /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/ has symlinks that have Rome and Vatican target San_Marino as the reference timezone file (which I find amusing! :-). Plus, every continental European capital city between Madrid and Warsaw are in the same timezone, and there are many African cities there too. Technically one might scoff at the difference, but we know how much national denominations matter in many people's minds. Just ask people in Beijing if they live in Taipei's timezone, if you do not believe that. Alessandro (a human being living in the San Marino timezone). -- Alessandro Selli <[email protected]> Tel. portatile: 340.839.73.05 VOIP SIP: [email protected] Chiave firma PGP/GPG signing key: B7FD89FD Chiave crittografia PGP/GPG encrypting key: A6023DD5 _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
