[tz] Looking for details on timezones “right/…”

Paul Gilmartin PaulGBoulder at AIM.com
Mon Jan 30 20:14:53 UTC 2023


On 1/28/23 21:11:34, Jens Tröger via tz wrote:

> This raises an interesting point, though: suppose I receive a “genuine UTC” timestamp (i.e. produced on a machine with right/UTC timezone) and then I read that timestamp on a POSIX machine (i.e. with posix/UTC or just UTC timezone) — there is a slim chance that my timestamp has now shifted by one second, correct? And could that be exploited 🤔

No good explanation -- I'd expect either 27 seconds or 0.
  
> PS: Is there a public link available to this email thread?

Follow the links (no registration required) on:
     <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>.
-- 
gil



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