Benjamin Drung dixit:
>Can you point to examples for it? Most of these cases should probably
>use TZ=UTC0 which work without having any timezone data files.
Except that tzif files contain more than DST info, such as the
name of the zone, but also leap second information (not in Debian
currently), which TZ=UTC0 would lose, therefore it’s not an option.
I’m using that heavily, for example.
>> A second candidate, although less used recently, is the top-level
>> GMT symlink.
>
>I haven't used GMT myself and I am not aware of any users. Do you know
Yeah, me either, I was guessing legacy scripts.
>codesearch.debian.net.
I’m much more concerned about scripts and other stuff that people
have locally on their systems, especially portable stuff, than
Debian package content here.
>Why isn't Etc/UTC an alternative to UTC?
It’s not as portable, it binds to the Olson database whereas
an otherwise unqualified UTC is pretty standard. Worse, if
Etc/UTC is not available, the fallback makes it assume Etc,
not UTC, as timezone name.
bye,
//mirabilos
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“It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as
seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
-- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
