On 2019-11-25 04:52:23 (+0800), Paul Eggert wrote:
On 11/23/19 10:22 PM, Philip Paeps wrote:
On 2019-11-24 16:13:57 (+1000), Garrett Wollman wrote:
I chose not to install the "backward" zones in the hope that this would more securely deprecate the then-recently-obsoleted old-style names like "US/Eastern"
I have no strong opinion about whether to install the backzone links in FreeBSD or not.
Hold on a second: although Garrett wrote "backward", you and Tom wrote "backzone". They're quite different things. Although many OSes install the links in the "backward" file, the "backzone" file is not recommended (see its comments for why). So I assume you meant "backward", not "backzone".
I did mean "backward", not "backzone". Apologies for the confusion!
(This is in contrast to Lester's followup email, which said "backzone" and was actually about the "backzone" file.)
Maybe we should rename "backzone" to avoid future confusion like this. It's not a file people should normally want to use anyway.
Renaming "backzone" might frustrate people who do rely on it though ... maybe this is a sufficiently minor issue that can simply be left alone. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises