[tz] 'Australia/Canberra' time zone?

Tom Lane tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us
Sun Nov 24 23:11:44 UTC 2019


Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Hold on a second: although Garrett wrote "backward", you and Tom wrote 
> "backzone". They're quite different things. Although many OSes install the links 
> in the "backward" file, the "backzone" file is not recommended (see its comments 
> for why). So I assume you meant "backward", not "backzone".

Oh, thanks for the correction.  I did mean "backward".

BTW, it's not like the tz project isn't taking a position on this:
by including backward and not backzone in the standard tzdata.zi
file, I'd say a pretty clear precedent for what to include has
been established.

			regards, tom lane


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