# <pre> | |
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of | |
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. | |
# 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, and the only practical | |
# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea | |
# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. | |
Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT | |
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/GMT-0 | |
Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0 | |
Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 | |
# We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations, | |
# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect. | |
# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect | |
# positive signs east of Greenwich. For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses | |
# the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC | |
# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to | |
# mean 4 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. east of Greenwich). | |
# | |
# In the draft 5 of POSIX 1003.1-200x, the angle bracket notation allows for | |
# TZ='<GMT-4>+4'; if you want time zone abbreviations conforming to | |
# ISO 8601 you can use TZ='<-0400>+4'. Thus the commonly-expected | |
# offset is kept within the angle bracket (and is used for display) | |
# while the POSIX sign is kept outside the angle bracket (and is used | |
# for calculation). | |
# | |
# Do not use a TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours behind | |
# GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT". | |
# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant, | |
# and had lines such as | |
# Zone GMT-12 -12 - GMT-1200 | |
# We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old | |
# way does a | |
# zic -l GMT-12 | |
# so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory. | |
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 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-9 9 - GMT-9 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-8 8 - GMT-8 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-7 7 - GMT-7 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - GMT-6 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - GMT-5 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - GMT-4 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-3 3 - GMT-3 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-2 2 - GMT-2 | |
Zone Etc/GMT-1 1 - GMT-1 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - GMT+1 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - GMT+2 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - GMT+3 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - GMT+5 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - GMT+6 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - GMT+7 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - GMT+8 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - GMT+9 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - GMT+10 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - GMT+11 | |
Zone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - GMT+12 |