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, to...@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.
