London is on Berlin time?
London is on Berlin time?
Posted Oct 2, 2021 22:36 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: London is on Berlin time? by NYKevin
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?
> where different communities are on different offsets and will informally indicate times as "local" or "Beijing" time (the "local" timezone doesn't officially exist, so it's not in tzdb, but people use it).
AFAIU (based on podcast data), it actually differs based on the language being spoken (rather than being explicitly labeled as such). Speaking Chinese, time is Beijing-offset. Speaking the local language, time offsets are a more sensible offset.
Posted Oct 3, 2021 4:54 UTC (Sun)
by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
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London is on Berlin time?
Ah, thank you for the correction. Of course, that's even *worse*, because now we're roping in the notoriously-terrible POSIX locale mechanism...