# 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 UT # (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to # mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich). # # In the draft 5 of POSIX 1003.1-200x, the angle bracket notation allows for # TZ='+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