Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 01:13:27PM -0500, Robert Tonkavich wrote:
> There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files
> overboard?
>
> I think Yes.
This is completely inaccurate. Time zones were not devised by drawing
equally-spaced meridian lines along the globe. They were invented
by political entities. They aren't static, either -- they change
from time to time, as political regimes change.
Time zones are not tied to the geography of the earth, nor even to
political boundaries. There are places that have two competing time
zones, one time zone for some of the people living there, and another
for the rest of the people living there.
Time zones aren't guaranteed to deviate from UTC by an integral number
of hours. There are some that are off by a fraction of an hour.
There are time zones pairings that differ from each other part of the
year, and concide with each other the rest of the year.
Try to think of the strangest, most obtuse, most ridiculous rules you
can -- real time zones are WORSE than that.
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