On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 10:36:59 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 10:23:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > /etc/timezone is only used by some legacy programs. All the current > > ones should be using /etc/localtime instead, which is a symlink to a > > binary zoneinfo file, rather than a text file containing a timezone name. > > You're right of course, but confirming its value does involve using > a command that's probably not at the front of one's mind. > > BTW what's the relationship between "current programs" and TZ nowadays?
Do you mean the TZ variable? That overrides the system default. hobbit:~$ date; TZ=Europe/Paris date Mon Jun 17 11:40:59 EDT 2024 Mon Jun 17 17:40:59 CEST 2024 If you're asking about programs that still use /etc/timzeone, I don't know of any off hand. I'd be interested in hearing about any that still do, though probably less so than the Debian libc6 maintainers are.
