On Fri 21 Jun 2024 at 06:45:58 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 09:32:10AM +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) > > The default time zone (i.e. that one which is used when some > process calls for one and hasn't specified one itself). > > > On 19/06/2024 11:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Especially that bit with the "system timezone". Reminds me of some > > > remote past, where a system actually had a timezone (and changed its > > > clock twice a year). Back then we used to set all our networked > > > Windows boxen to a time zone without summer time change (ISTR it > > > was Monrovia/Liberia) to avoid having our Makefiles freaking out > > > twice a year. > > > > I recall a checkbox do disable DST in Windows 95 or Windows 98, so perhaps > > searching for a timezone without DST was not necessary. > > It's a log time ago, but we were a shop with a few pretty knowledgeable folks, > so I guess we first tried something like that.
There was a Registry Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal that you could set to 1 for UTC. I don't remember when it was introduced. And, of course, it might have been present but undocumented for years. > > By the way, > > <https://stackoverflow.com/tags/timezone/info> describes another style of > > identifiers in the Microsoft TZ DB. At certain point I have realized that > > "time zone" and "timezone" have a bit different meaning in the case of the > > IANA database <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html> > > It's a complex matter, yes. Food for nerds :) I'm not sure you can expect consistency in spelling beyond any particular set of documents. Styles change: there's a tendency in English to evolve towards compound words, sometimes with hyphenation along the way. Cheers, David.
