Re: [tz] Posix time zone question

Donald MacQueen <dmacq@erols.com> writes:

But if posix/America/Detroit and America/Detroit are the same, what is the point of even having posix/America/Detroit?

X is whatever happens to be the default, right/X is explicitly with leap seconds, posix/X is explicitly without them. I seem to recall that identical zones are hardlinked, so having two (or several) files like that only has an overhead of one inode. At least on Linux, I don't know how AIX works in this regard. Thanks, PM