On Tue 09 Apr 2019 at 20:07:37 (-0000), Curt wrote: > On 2019-04-09, Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> 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.
