Re: [tz] "official" zone name alternatives via Link records

On 12.02.21 20:31, Paul Gilmartin via tz wrote:

I notice, FWIW, that the MacOS distribution (at Mojave) contains no symlinks; the files are entirely replicated. This needlessly expands the DB by about 30% (MacOS nicely supports symlinks) and actually removes information. The casual browser can not tell at a glance that files are duplicated.

Nobody should worry about these 30%, I think, these days. A lot more of space is wasted, everywhere. On my Mac (Catalina) I find at least three full copies of tzdb ls -l /var/db/timezone/tz drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  160 27 Okt 03:33 2020d.1.0 drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  160 31 Jan 04:26 2020f.1.0 drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  160  2 Feb 04:27 2021a.1.0