[tz] suggestion: split "backward" into "backward" and "deprecated"
Andrew Gierth
andrew at tao11.riddles.org.uk
Tue May 5 00:26:22 UTC 2020
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca> writes:
>> (One further exception should be made: the link from Etc/UTC to UTC
>> is in widespread use and should probably be moved to "etcetera"
>> alongside the similar "GMT" link. Otherwise it should stay in
>> "backward". This change already exists in FreeBSD, where all "GMT"
>> defaults have been changed to "UTC" at some point.)
Brian> It is not clear what you mean by saying FreeBSD changed GMT
Brian> defaults to UTC at some point.
I mean that where the tzcode uses "GMT" as a default zone name or
abbreviation in the absence of data, FreeBSD uses "UTC" (and has since
2004).
e.g. with no /etc/localtime file,
% env -u TZ date
Tue 5 May 2020 00:00:37 UTC
(To the best of my knowledge there are no reference clocks available to
which one could synchronize in order to use a mean solar time, so your
argument seems to me to support this choice.)
--
Andrew.
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