On 01/04/2015 at 16:07, Bryan J Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Alessandro Selli > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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! :-). > That's not Zoneinfo's fault. > > The "official" Zoneinfo path has _always_ been, since only a few years > after Olson started it in '86, "Continent"/"Largest City", for any > unique Timezone with any unique history (backwards or forwards).
This is precisely the reason I find it amusing: Rome officially counts 2.5 million resident people spread on a 1,287 Km^2 surface. The Most Serene Republic of San Marino tallies around 33 thousand people on 61 squared Kms. "Largest City"? Regards, -- 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
