FW: [Arthur David Olson: RE: tz list server problem?]
Dag-Erling is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: des@des.no [mailto:des@des.no] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:08 PM To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Cc: Garrett Wollman ... I was trying to suggest the following addition to etcetera: Index: etcetera =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.5 diff -u -r1.1.2.5 etcetera --- etcetera 6 Apr 2001 16:43:21 -0000 1.1.2.5 +++ etcetera 25 May 2004 16:38:14 -0000 @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ # We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. Link Etc/GMT GMT +Link Etc/UTC UTC + Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no
From: des@des.no [mailto:des@des.no] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:08 PM
I was trying to suggest the following addition to etcetera: +Link Etc/UTC UTC
The "backward" file contains that link, so "etcetera" shouldn't need it. (Nowadays you're supposed to use something like TZ="UTC0".)
<<On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:07:40 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> said:
The "backward" file contains that link, so "etcetera" shouldn't need it. (Nowadays you're supposed to use something like TZ="UTC0".)
Aha, I understand the source of the problem. In FreeBSD, we don't ship with the `backward' file, in order to discourage use of its contents. -GAWollman
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Garrett Wollman -
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Paul Eggert