Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
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- Subject: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
- From: Kamil Jońca <kjonca@poczta.onet.pl>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 21:01:11 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <BeLol-64T-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (rhkramer@gmail.com's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:40:01 +0100")
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rhkramer@gmail.com writes:
> On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on
>> our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who
>> devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really
>> super clever to treat ALL unknown TZ strings as if they were "UTC0".
>
> ...
>
>> Outside of the USA, you'll probably need to go with the "nearest big
>> city" names that are the current vogue. The best way to use those is
>> probably "ls /usr/share/zoneinfo", choose your continent, and then
>> (for example) "ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia". Then pick a city from
>> the resulting set, and pray.
>>
>> If there's a better way, I don't know it.
>
> Just google [time in <name of place>] (e.g., time in China). No need to find a
> TZ string.
Heh. OP concers about 3.5 MB of locale tz data and you want to install
browser which is usually much bigger?
KJ
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