Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file
On Thu 20 Jun 2024 at 22:58:53 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 09:32:10 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > On 20/06/2024 11:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > "the system's
> > > time zone" (of which some, me included, say "there's no such thing",
> > > and others disagree 🙂
> >
> > What term is appropriate in your opinion do describe the setting stored as
> > the /etc/localtime symlink? localtime(5)
>
> I've been using "system default time zone", for lack of a better phrase.
> I feel it's important to convey that this is *not* a global setting that
> affects "the system" in some universal way. Like, for example, changing
> where /etc/localtime points will (probably) *not* change the behavior
> of any programs that are already running. Nor will it change the behavior
> of any programs that have the TZ environment variable set, or any that
> simply ignore time zones and write everything in UTC or TAI64 or whatever.
>
> It's just a default that many, but not all, programs may use when they run.
Well, that's a mouthful. And what am I to call the time that a system
issues using that system default time zone? If I boot up two computers
and they display different times, what term is appropriate in your
opinion to describe the time displayed?
Cheers,
David.
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