diff --git a/libs/libcommon/src/DateLUT.cpp b/libs/libcommon/src/DateLUT.cpp index 22c50a9f694..66ca8e6d201 100644 --- a/libs/libcommon/src/DateLUT.cpp +++ b/libs/libcommon/src/DateLUT.cpp @@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ std::string determineDefaultTimeZone() fs::path tz_file_path; std::string error_prefix; const char * tz_env_var = std::getenv("TZ"); + + /// In recent tzdata packages some files now are symlinks and canonical path resolution + /// may give wrong timezone names - store the name as it is, if possible. + std::string tz_name; + if (tz_env_var) { error_prefix = std::string("Could not determine time zone from TZ variable value: `") + tz_env_var + "': "; @@ -40,11 +45,12 @@ std::string determineDefaultTimeZone() ++tz_env_var; tz_file_path = tz_env_var; + tz_name = tz_env_var; } else { error_prefix = "Could not determine local time zone: "; - tz_file_path = "/etc/localtime"; + tz_file_path = "/etc/localtime"; /// FIXME: in case of no TZ use the immediate linked file as tz name. } try @@ -56,7 +62,7 @@ std::string determineDefaultTimeZone() /// then the relative path is the time zone id. fs::path relative_path = tz_file_path.lexically_relative(tz_database_path); if (!relative_path.empty() && *relative_path.begin() != ".." && *relative_path.begin() != ".") - return relative_path.string(); + return tz_name.empty() ? relative_path.string() : tz_name; /// The file is not inside the tz_database_dir, so we hope that it was copied and /// try to find the file with exact same contents in the database.