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Which RFC? The RFC moving it to IANA in 2012? It's been in development in some way since the 80s [1], the current timezone names in it are from the 90s[2], and
by Macha 5y ago
Which RFC? The RFC moving it to IANA in 2012? It's been in development in some way since the 80s [1], the current timezone names in it are from the 90s[2], and it was definitely already the standard timezone definitions when I started using Linux in the 00s.
[1]: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1986-November/008946.html http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1986-November/008946.html
[2]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1993-October/009233.html https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1993-October/009233.html
- lostcolony 5y agoYes, moving it to IANA. Maybe the packaged DBs were 'standard', in a sense, but you couldn't just take a file from one and drop it into another; they were configured or serialized in various ways. Regardless, it meant updating a dependency when things changed; I don't know the state of historical timezone information at the OS level at that time, but I do know none of the libraries I looked at made OS calls.