[tz] timezone Verschlimmbesserung

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Wed Oct 6 16:15:45 UTC 2021


Paul Eggert wrote in
 <a590de23-4aea-6286-6657-0741ed81dc18 at cs.ucla.edu>:
 |On 10/5/21 15:38, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 ...
 |> i would simply output the name of the link, maybe like so
 |> 
 |>    The following information has been given:
 |>    ...
 |>    Therefore TZ='Asia/Phnomh_Penh' will be used.
 |>    It is a link pointing to the dataset TZ='Asia/Bangkok'.
 |
 |OK, I see. You can get the effect you want in tzdb 2021c, by using the 
 |command 'tzselect -t zone'. However, the -t option is not documented as 
 |it wasn't clear to me how this should work in general. Perhaps it should 
 |be documented and/or generalized.
 ...

Oh yes, thank you.  Works.
(Using zone.tab by default seems more useful to me, as tzselect is
meant for end-users.)
..I did not write a documentation patch now..

Ciao,

--steffen
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