Hi Mike, On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 02:30:08AM +0000, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and > CST6CDT are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of > any use to me at all? If so how? And, yes, I understand that they > need to be supplied for every zone in the world initially but am > curious if there is any use for them after one's own time zone is > set.
It's the Olson database, needed for any application that will want to know the time in another time zone, or parse such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database The files are tiny. It's not worth removing them IMHO. It's 3½MiB of space on my system. Cheers, Andy