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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:24:18 +0400
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: timezones
On 29.09.2011 20:21, Solar Designer wrote:
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> What we may do for our older glibc is take the Etc/GMT-4 file, change
> the name inside it from GMT-4 to MSD, and replace the Europe/Moscow file
> with that. (I just did on my computer - seems to work as desired.)
Please do not do that. Timezone information contains historic data too, so
with past dates the right Europe/Moscow file will show correct information
wrt MSK/MSD and even before. Not that it is hugely important or used much,
but it is at least nice to keep it accurate.
Thanks,
/mjt
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