Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> wrote: |<<On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:52:25 +0200, sdaoden@gmail.com (Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso) said: | |> Except for Mac OS X all operating systems i use simply map Olson's |> hierarchy. | |Then they're doing it wrong. | |Does anyone remember when zone.tab was added to the distribution? I |wrote an application to use it more than ten years ago. FreeBSD users |have long been asked to select among: | | east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc. | Heilongjiang (except Mohe), Jilin | central China - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, etc. | most of Tibet & Xinjiang | west Tibet & Xinjiang | |We don't present the TZids at all. Users are welcome to learn about |them, and they have some utility for command-line use with date(1), |but they truly are an implementation detail. | |-GAWollman Indeed. Though it seems to me that "more than ten years ago" is a nice euphemism for 1996-11-19 18:09:41 +0000. :). Aaaah, the cosy comfort after doing [Shell] -> mount -> newfs -> tar -x -f PACKAGES to not run into the inode limits the default installer produces.. --steffen