[tz] IANA timezone database - request to add Omaha, Nebraska

[Paul Eggert]

On 7/26/22 13:15, John Hawkinson wrote:
>> If it means to enumerate only Zones and omit Links, which is what I think
>> you mean, then readlink will work only if Links are implemented via symbolic
>> links. Although Debian and Red Hat based systems do that, the default TZDB
>> installation does not (it uses hard links), and Alpine, macOS, NetBSD,
>> OpenBSD, OpenSUSE etc. use the default either because it is the default or
>> because it is a bit more efficient.

> You sure?
> 
> My MacOS 12.5 laptop uses a symlink for /etc/localtime

Oh, I was referring to links like these on Ubuntu 22.04:

$ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Belfast

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 21 11:29 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Belfast 
-> London


I was not talking about /etc/localtime, which is a different kettle of fish.

PS. Based on my misreading of a quick Google search I said in that quote 
above that macOS uses hard links for aliases like Europe/Belfast. 
However, Guy just reported[1] that current Ventura beta uses copies, 
just like FreeBSD does. Apologies for the error.

[1] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2022-July/031706.html