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Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works
Date 2018-06-12 20:00 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I looked at /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York to see
> what the Eastern Time Zone did and got a surprise.  Instead of
> 450 odd lines, there are only 4 which basically describe the
> 1901-2038 life span of the file.

wooledg:~$ zdump -v America/New_York | wc
   2324   37136  229862

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/etc/localtime and How it Works "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-06-12 19:40 +0200
  Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-06-12 20:00 +0200
    Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-06-12 21:30 +0200
  Re: /etc/localtime and How it Works Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-06-12 20:20 +0200

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