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Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

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All,

There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files
overboard?

I think Yes.

Robert Tonkavich

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:00 PM Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:10:02 +0100 "Martin McCormick"
> <martin.m@suddenlink.net> wrote:
>
>  >         If you aren't in to trying to modify some sort of
>  > embedded system to do something it wasn't originally designed to
>  > do then ram and storage are getting cheaper by the day and some
>  > things just aren't worth worrying about.
>
> To a great extent that's true, although there is the danger
> of falling into the attitude that abundance justifies waste.
> (This can once again make things worth worrying about,
> well before it might be necessary if you do things efficiently.)
>
> However, there's another consideration: the KISS principle.
> A system that needs 780 files is going to be a lot more complex
> and difficult to understand than one that gets by with one or two.
> This can have serious impacts on reliability and maintainability.
>
> I'm seeing more and more cases of systems falling apart because
> they're becoming too complex to administer.  Some of this is because
> they "just grew", without proper planning and pruning.  Some of it
> is due to that effect described by Blaise Pascal, who once apologized
> for the length of the letter he was writing because he didn't have
> time to make it shorter.  And some, I'm sad to say, are a deliberate
> effort at obfuscation: an old trick long used by politicians to keep
> the electorate blissfully ignorant of their shenanigans, and now
> adopted by some equally nefarious system designers.
>
> --
> /~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Microsoft is a dictatorship.
> \ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  Apple is a cult.
>   X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  Linux is anarchy.
> / \  if you read it the right way.  |  Pick your poison.
>
>

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Thank You

Robert M Tonkavich
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Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2020-11-30 19:10 +0100
  Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Robert Tonkavich <rmtonkavich@gmail.com> - 2020-11-30 19:20 +0100
    Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-30 19:30 +0100
      Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-11-30 20:10 +0100
    Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-11-30 20:00 +0100
    Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-30 22:00 +0100
      Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-30 23:30 +0100
        Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2020-12-01 01:30 +0100
          Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-01 06:30 +0100
            Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Robert Tonkavich <rmtonkavich@gmail.com> - 2020-12-01 14:20 +0100
              Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-02 11:10 +0100
        Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-01 01:50 +0100
  Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-11-30 19:30 +0100

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