Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:55:38 -0500 From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> Message-ID: <B410D30A78C6404C9DABEA31B54A2813029A04DE@nihcesmlbx10.nih.gov>
| Are there any systems out in the wild now where setting the TZ | environment variable to US/Pacific-New does something different than | setting it to US/Pacific?
Note that report was from 1992 - back then they probably were different. Anyone running on 1992 timezone data today is going to have far worse problems than that one, so I don't think we really need to worry about it.
The zone name has to remain like all historical ones, for the people who have been using it - so the requests to make it vanish are never going to happen (if we "deleted" it, it would just move from a file of its own into the "backward" file, which hardly seems like a change worth making).
The problem is, that this was never officially a timezone. It might be akin to adding daylight savings to the Australia/Brisbane timezone data and calling it Brisbane-New -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Qt Software R & D, Nokia Pty Ltd