Re: systemd and timezone
On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:01:29PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the
> current rules of geographical region (continent or ocean) and city name.
> All legacy timezone symlinks (old or merged timezones mentioned in the
> upstream backward file) were moved to tzdata-legacy. This includes the
> US/* timezones.
Wow. I am not a fan of that change. It's good to have advance warning
that it's coming, though.
> What's wrong with NTP, too simple?
NTP and tzdata have nothing to do with each other. NTP keeps your system
clock in sync with sources across a network. tzdata allows conversion
of the system clock into local time representation strings.
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