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Re: date(1) in stretch and buster

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On Tue 09 Apr 2019 at 20:07:37 (-0000), Curt wrote:
> On 2019-04-09, Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > The output may differ depending on you operating system level,
> > given Reco's observations.  Feel free to have à look at
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/, to have an idea of the available
> > locations.
> 
> I took a look.
> 
> I was confused to note the presence of the UCT zone. UCT? Shouldn't that
> be UTC?  But the latter zone proves to be a symlink to the former.

I imagine it gets called Universal Coordinated Time (whereas I always
pronounce it "you-tee-see"). My rationalisation would be that it's
Coordinated Time (so was GMT) that has been agreed as Universal.
If it was already Universal Time, it wouldn't need to be Coordinated.
So I prefer it to Wiki's Coordinated Universal Time. Anyway, cut time
is a musical concept. UTC is of course a French acronym.

But I don't have symlinks: they're separate files, thus preserving the
name of the zone for those who still use it. I think that officially
it has migrated to the fictitous continent of landfill called "Etc".

> Then there's the GMT0, GMT-0, and GMT+0 zones, all symlinks to plain old
> venerable GMT, which kind of makes sense, I guess, zero being what it is.

Yes, and a load of GMT+x stuff which suffers the same way as UTC+x:
you end up with the name GMT applied to times that aren't GMT.

> Anyway, it's getting late.

Not here: it's barely teatime.

Cheers,
David.

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date(1) in stretch and buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-08 17:30 +0200
  Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-08 19:20 +0200
    Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-08 19:30 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-04-08 19:50 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-08 20:20 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-08 21:30 +0200
    Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-04-08 20:10 +0200
  Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2019-04-09 15:50 +0200
    Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-09 20:10 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-09 20:10 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-09 20:30 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-04-09 21:20 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-09 21:20 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-09 20:40 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-09 22:10 +0200
          Re: date(1) in stretch and buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-09 23:00 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-09 20:40 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-04-09 20:50 +0200
          Re: date(1) in stretch and buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-09 21:50 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-09 21:40 +0200
    Re: date(1) in stretch and buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-09 20:30 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-09 21:00 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-09 22:00 +0200
      Re: date(1) in stretch and buster Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2019-04-10 13:40 +0200
        Re: date(1) in stretch and buster David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-10 18:00 +0200

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