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Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information


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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