June 28, 2023
12:52 p.m.
Stephen Colebourne wrote:
Re-reading the thread, I see where your confusion comes from. What I was agreeing with was the concept of removing attempts to be accurate pre-1970. I then pointed out why being completely inaccurate (all UTC) is not viable as the default.
I think Paul noted already that “-00” is not the same as UTC:
"make ZFLAGS=-r@0" does not cause tzdb localtime to just return UTC, as localtime also returns an error indication indicating that the actual offset is unknown. This error indication is in the form of the time zone abbreviation "-00".
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