April 21, 2023
1:32 p.m.
Hi, If people are aware of timezones, they often know UTC and their offsets (e.g. Europe/Berlin is UTC+2 summer). But they are probably not aware that the Etc/GMT offsets are inverted (e.g. you have to select Etc/GMT-2 for UTC+2). I was not aware of that and other people as well as the bugs in Ubuntu and Debian indicate (see https://launchpad.net/bugs/1325949 and https://bugs.debian.org/540305). What do you think about the idea of introducing Etc/UTC+x timezones that have the "correct" offset so that people can select fixed offsets more easily? So Etc/GMT-2 would be renamed to Etc/UTC+2 and Etc/GMT-2 would become a symlink to it (same for all other Etc/GMT+x and Etc/GMT-x timezones). -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer