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Jennifer Richards <jennifer@staff.ietf.org> Mon, 13 July 2026 14:52 UTC

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On 2026-07-12 7:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> For some reason, it was set to Africa/Abidjan. I don't live in Cote 
> d'Ivoire. But Postorious has an incomplete list of time zones, which 
> does _not_ include New Zealand (and probably other important places). 
> For now, I decided to live in UTC, which is about as wrong as it could be.

Not sure how it got its default, but it has `Pacific/Auckland` for me, 
do you see that also?

It's reflecting the quirks of the underlying tzinfo database, which is 
sometimes ...unpredictable... in its choice of timezone names.

jennifer

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