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Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Keld Simonsen <keld at keldix dot com>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, libc-locales at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:44:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information
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Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com> writes:
> Locales are just a way of providing all these data, collected from
> different sources, into one uniform syntax, to be utilized by
> different glibc functions. And also collected so the user
> can choose the whole collection in one go. That has proven a useful
> concept for many years in the POSIX/C environment.
And the timezone package it the primary source for timezone data.
Andreas.
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