From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96973 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2015 21:07:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 74047 invoked by uid 89); 12 Aug 2015 15:06:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mailbackend.panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.23.66 with SMTP id k2mr47230406wif.85.1439391976379; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:06:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150812140837.GA23436@www5.open-std.org> References: <556F23C9.3030500@redhat.com> <20150603203430.GC15814@www5.open-std.org> <55715DB2.2010500@redhat.com> <20150806175226.GD28963@www5.open-std.org> <55C51D35.8060406@cs.ucla.edu> <20150809145027.GA5048@www5.open-std.org> <55C7773F.30205@cs.ucla.edu> <20150812140837.GA23436@www5.open-std.org> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:07:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Removing locale timezone information From: Zack Weinberg To: Keld Simonsen Cc: GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00103.txt.bz2 On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:08 AM, wrote: > My impression is that timezone changes are normally announced in due time > so that they can be included in normal glibc release schedule, which > I think is about twice a year, but irregulary. I have not been down into > the data, tho. Sadly, as pointed out by others, this is not so. Keld, would your use cases be satisfied if each glibc locale (for which this makes sense) specified a default *Olsen* timezone? I think that might be a way to get what you want while avoiding the problems everyone else is bringing up. zw