Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi Mike,

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 02:30:08AM +0000, mike.junk.46@att.net wrote:
> Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and
> CST6CDT are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of
> any use to me at all? If so how? And, yes, I understand that they
> need to be supplied for every zone in the world initially but am
> curious if there is any use for them after one's own time zone is
> set.

It's the Olson database, needed for any application that will want
to know the time in another time zone, or parse such.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

The files are tiny. It's not worth removing them IMHO. It's 3½MiB of
space on my system.

Cheers,
Andy