Mark Zimmerman wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:27:42PM -0400, Scott Plumlee wrote:
The FAQ seems to reference UTC (at least in section 8), which would
translate at Universal Time, Coordinated, from what I understand. Are
these two the same?
Yes, UTC is Coordinated Universal Time. The acronym is a compromise
between english and french.
I appreciate all the answers, both on and off list. Wikipedia was the
first place I looked, so I understand the UTC is the official US
abbreviation of Universal Coordinated Time. But I still don't see a
reason why, if UTC==UCT, there are two files when it would seem that a
link would remove the need for two separate files.
# pwd
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc
# ls -lai UCT
87585 -r--r--r-- 2 root bin 56 Mar 2 2006 UCT
# ls -lai UTC
87589 -r--r--r-- 6 root bin 56 Mar 2 2006 UTC
So one has 6 links, one has 2 links. My guess is that somewhere in the
system, there are other files that need both of these, perhaps for
historical reasons. That's what I'm trying to figure out, but I don't
know if there is a simple method for finding the files that reference a
particular inode.
Anyway, back to the original questions, if UTC==UCT, what is the reason
the a symbolic link from UCT to UTC would not work?
Please pardon the stupidity if the answer is blatantly obvious. Clue
stick received with a smile, at least the first hundred times.
