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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:46:24 -0800
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@...ucla.edu>
To: James Cloos <cloos@...loos.com>, musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, tz@...a.org
Subject: Re: [tz] Weird PST8PDT and EST5EDT behavior on Alpine Linux
On 2024-03-06 07:39, James Cloos via tz wrote:
> (I must say it was a bit anoying that the library kept the original
> definition of EST5EDT et alia rathar than moving with the legislation.
> But only a bit.)
So Openwrt uses pre-2007 US daylight saving rules for TZ='EST5EDT'?
That's puzzling. I thought Openwrt is based on musl, which ignores DST
for that TZ setting (a behavior that POSIX allows). I'm a bit curious as
to what's going on there.
> So I have to use EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2:00:00,M11.1.0/2:00:00
> for the timezone. (The explicit /2:00:00 might be avoidable, but the
> use of self documenting data can be beneficial.)
For a fully self-documented TZ setting you could use this:
<EST>+05:00:00<EDT>+04:00:00,M3.2.0/+02:00:00,M11.1.0/+02:00:00
However, this sort of thing tends to be error-prone; e.g., suppose I
forgot a colon?
'zic' attempts to generate the shortest equivalent TZ setting. On my
machine /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York ends with this equivalent:
EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
which I find more readable. I'm used to TZ strings, though, so that
colors my opinion.
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