Dear forum readers,
I’m not sure where this one belongs, but snapd seemed the most relevant category to me…
I’m french, and my system’s (23.10) localisation is set accordingly. However, I just noticed that I get this output :
$ snap refresh --time
timer: 00:00~24:00/4
last: aujourd'hui à 00h11, heure des Rocheuses
next: aujourd'hui à 10h35, heure des Rocheuses
While I’m getting this at the same time :
$ LANG=C snap refresh --time
timer: 00:00~24:00/4
last: today at 00:11 CEST
next: today at 10:35 CEST
“heure des Rocheuses” translates to “Rockies’ time”… but the problem is that CEST is not Rockies’ time, it’s Central European Summer Time. I seriously doubt the same time is being applied in the Rockies right now. Considering I’ve never seen time zones translated anywhere outside the snap system for now, I thought that maybe it’s snap-specific… and btw, who had the idea of translating time zones, anyway ? Aren’t CEST/CET, EST/EDT, MST/MDT good enough, instead of replacing that with that long slog ? It seems to me that time display benefits from being compact… or maybe replacing with a UTC offset, that could make sense.