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Diffstat (limited to 'share/zoneinfo/etcetera')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/etcetera b/share/zoneinfo/etcetera index ed619ae..4fb27ac 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/etcetera +++ b/share/zoneinfo/etcetera @@ -1,22 +1,32 @@ -# @(#)etcetera 7.4 +# @(#)etcetera 7.10 -# All of these are set up just so people can "zic -l" to a timezone -# that's right for their area, even if it doesn't have a name or DST rules -# (half hour zones are too much to bother with -- when someone asks!) +# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that +# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" +# to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the +# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little +# need now for the entries that are not on UTC. Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT -Link Etc/GMT Etc/UTC -Link Etc/GMT Etc/UCT -Link Etc/GMT Etc/Universal +Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC +Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT + +# The following link uses older naming conventions, +# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward', +# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly. +# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. +Link Etc/GMT GMT + +Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal +Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu + Link Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich -Link Etc/GMT Etc/Zulu Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0 Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0 Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 # We use POSIX-style signedness in the names and output, # internal-style signedness in the specifications. -# For example, TZ=Etc/GMT+4 corresponds to 4 hours _behind_ GMT; +# For example, TZ=Etc/GMT+4 corresponds to 4 hours _behind_ UTC; # it is equivalent to TZ=GMT+4, which is implemented directly as per POSIX. # Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant, @@ -27,7 +37,8 @@ Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 # zic -l GMT-12 # so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory. -Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - GMT-13 # 12 hours ahead of GMT, plus DST +Zone Etc/GMT-14 14 - GMT-14 # 14 hours ahead of GMT +Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - GMT-13 Zone Etc/GMT-12 12 - GMT-12 Zone Etc/GMT-11 11 - GMT-11 Zone Etc/GMT-10 10 - GMT-10 |
