Re: [tz] Posix time zone question

----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Leffler To: Zefram Cc: Donald MacQueen ; tz@iana.org Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [tz] Posix time zone question

Can you elaborate on what it means for a system to be a 'right-based system'?

LANG=C TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/Detroit date; LANG=C TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Detroit date Sat Jan 14 17:29:08 EST 2012 Sat Jan 14 17:28:44 EST 2012 It depend if you want to account time with leap seconds or not. Gilles