Re: POSIX TS spec reverses the meaning of TZ offset compared to ISO

[tomas]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Heinz Tuechler wrote:
> Max Nikulin wrote/hat geschrieben on/am 02.02.2023 04:22:
> > On 02/02/2023 04:57, Heinz Tuechler wrote:
> > > My impression is that many of non experts like me don't
> > > know in which time zone they are living.
> > 
> > For you own time zone: Open Development tools in a browser ([F12]),
> > switch to console, type
> > 
> >      new Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone
> > 
> 
> Thank you, Max.
> It seems to me that this shows the time zone I selected at set up of the
> computer, in my case Europe/Berlin. Using package lutz in R with correct
> coordinates I see Europe/Vienna, based on open street map.
> Days ago I did not even know that Berlin and Vienna are in different
> time zones.

Vienna is special :)

But no: there's no /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna. I think what you
are seeing is just a trick to improve "User Experience".

Cheers
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