Feb. 22, 2009
2:52 p.m.
The "pacificnew" file includes information about legislation that was introduced (but not passed) in the United States Congress; it serves to explain why a "Pacific-New" time zone was created in the first place. Note that the last line of the file is a "Link America/Los_Angeles US/Pacific-New" line, meaning that using either name now has the same effect. As to jokes and idiocy: there used to be an obscure bit of word play in an strftime.c comment; it was eliminated in version 7.40.-) --ado