Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> writes:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have
> access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than
> 4MiB of data. For yours to have 256 times this much is quite an
> aberration. What did you type to determine that your
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/ has 1GiB of data in it?
find . -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \; \
|grep -F / \
| awk ' { total += $5 } END { print total }'
That usually just adds the sizes of all the files it can
find all the way through the tree.
If this is not an accurate way to determine how many
bytes there are in a directory then that would be the reason for
the discrepancy.
>
> > I've wished one could just set certain parts of the
> > computer to other times but I can also understand why this could
> > be a problem.
>
> You can set any process to have a different time zone by use of
> environment variables.
>
> $ date
> Sat 21 Nov 21:34:55 UTC 2020
> $ TZ=America/Los_Angeles date
> Sat 21 Nov 13:35:04 PST 2020
That is very true but cron only works in the time zone
for wherever the TZ for the system is set.
On the system I have set to British time, my local login
shell has TZ=America/Chicago so I read Central Standard Time for
file time stamps but if I set a cron job, it runs on either
British Summer Time or British standard time which is the same as
UTC during Winter.
> Cheers,
> Andy
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