Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:11:22 +0200 From: Yuri <yuri@aetern.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HST time zone Message-ID: <d2549ec8-521c-94a6-cd97-e7e33a09169a@aetern.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFnjQbv5RqjMZBqcr4=4S9JLXpEwDVt8%2B4X2AtRPr%2B%2BHBu1Krg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFnjQbsuomQRg3rdgBJJUDuNPKK%2BdpC%2BVhL2qObM1XTTOWTrKQ@mail.gmail.com> <AA5CCCE5-B4D3-4EE7-9EB4-CAE735C0EDE9@FreeBSD.org> <CAFnjQbv5RqjMZBqcr4=4S9JLXpEwDVt8%2B4X2AtRPr%2B%2BHBu1Krg@mail.gmail.com>
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David Cornejo wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 11:01 AM Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org > <mailto:dim@freebsd.org>> wrote: > > On 25 Jul 2023, at 22:26, David Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com > <mailto:dave@dogwood.com>> wrote: > > > > One thing that has bothered me for a long time is that the > Pacific/Honolulu timezone is found under the America -- North and > South/United States of America/Hawaii in tzsetup. Politics of > Hawaiian Sovereignty aside, every other system I regularly install > uses Pacific/Honolulu as it is in the official tzdb. tzsetup is (more or less) following the logic of the original tzselect script from tzcode. > > Is there any reason why a patch to change to match the standard > would be refused? What kind of standard and what exactly needs to be patched? > Which version of FreeBSD are you using? On my 14-CURRENT box, Hawaii > is actually found in *two* locations in tzsetup: > > * America -- North and South -> United States of America -> Hawaii > * Pacific Ocean -> United States of America -> Hawaii Using tzsetup compiled with -DVERBOSE shows that both options install Pacific/Honolulu. > > > It just seems that the "standard" is Pacific/Honolulu and we are > different - in the IANA tz db, there is only mention of > Pacific/Honolulu. While I'm not saying they're correct, every Linux dist > I've tried uses it. I have a mixed shop, and every difference is a > potential problem. We are not really different as the timezone file selected is indeed Pacific/Honolulu. What is the exact difference with linux dists? > I doubt that this affects many people, so consistency would not seem a > hardship. > > So that would serve all sides? :) > > As far as I can see, the menu is dynamically generated from > /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone1970.tab, which has: > > US +211825-1575130 Pacific/Honolulu Hawaii > > and seems to be up-to-date with regards to the IANA tz files. Right, tzsetup only processes what's there in zone1970.tab.
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