[systemd-devel] Why don't systemd-timedated list time zones from zone1970.tab?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fr, 22.02.19 12:21, Christopher Wong (christopher.wong at axis.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> The systemd-timedated list available time zones from the file
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab provided by the Time Zone
> Database. According to the comments in zone.tab its content is for
> backward-compatibility aid for older programs. New programs should
> use zone1970.tab.?
>
> ?Wouldn't it be better to use the zone1970.tab file?

Looks like it indeed. Could you file a bug on github about this, so
that we keep track of this? Even better: file a bugfix PR!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat