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

[Christopher Wong]

Hi Lennart,

I have created a PR now.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/11856

BR,
Christopher Wong

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From: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 14:08
To: Christopher Wong
Cc: systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Why don't systemd-timedated list time zones from zone1970.tab?

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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