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| From | David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ |
| Date | 2020-12-01 01:50 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <Bh21H-6Sw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <BgVMB-3hx-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <BgVWh-3kM-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <BgYr9-4Gi-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <BgZQd-5Eh-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 17:28:50 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Finally, competing with the politicians, the scientists have > > complicated things with their atomic time and leap seconds. > > Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? > Isn't this info "global" (i.e. not specific to particular time zones)? > > > Stefan "who for some reason presumed it's kept elsewhere but > couldn't say why" AIUI: $ TZ=posix/America/Chicago date; TZ=right/America/Chicago date Mon Nov 30 18:45:34 CST 2020 Mon Nov 30 18:45:07 CST 2020 $ I don't know whether their history is encoded somewhere. I only recall the first leap second because IIRC the BBC changed the pips about the same time (making the sixth pip longer). Cheers, David.
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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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