1 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that 5 # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" 6 # to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the 7 # tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical 8 # need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea 9 # that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. 10 11 Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT 12 Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC 13 Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT 14 15 # The following link uses older naming conventions, 16 # but it belongs here, not in the file 'backward', 17 # as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly. 18 # We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. 19 Link Etc/GMT GMT 20 21 Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal 22 Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu 23 24 Link Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich 25 Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0 26 Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0 27 Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 28 29 # We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations, 30 # even though this is the opposite of what many people expect. 31 # POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect 32 # positive signs east of Greenwich. For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses 33 # the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UT 34 # (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to 35 # mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich). 36 # 37 # In the draft 5 of POSIX 1003.1-200x, the angle bracket notation allows for 38 # TZ='<GMT-4>+4'; if you want time zone abbreviations conforming to 39 # ISO 8601 you can use TZ='<-0400>+4'. Thus the commonly-expected 40 # offset is kept within the angle bracket (and is used for display) 41 # while the POSIX sign is kept outside the angle bracket (and is used 42 # for calculation). 43 # 44 # Do not use a TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours behind 45 # GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT". 46 47 # Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant, 48 # and had lines such as 49 # Zone GMT-12 -12 - GMT-1200 50 # We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old 51 # way does a 52 # zic -l GMT-12 53 # so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory. 54 55 Zone Etc/GMT-14 14 - GMT-14 # 14 hours ahead of GMT 56 Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - GMT-13 57 Zone Etc/GMT-12 12 - GMT-12 58 Zone Etc/GMT-11 11 - GMT-11 59 Zone Etc/GMT-10 10 - GMT-10 60 Zone Etc/GMT-9 9 - GMT-9 61 Zone Etc/GMT-8 8 - GMT-8 62 Zone Etc/GMT-7 7 - GMT-7 63 Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - GMT-6 64 Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - GMT-5 65 Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - GMT-4 66 Zone Etc/GMT-3 3 - GMT-3 67 Zone Etc/GMT-2 2 - GMT-2 68 Zone Etc/GMT-1 1 - GMT-1 69 Zone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - GMT+1 70 Zone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - GMT+2 71 Zone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - GMT+3 72 Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4 73 Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - GMT+5 74 Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - GMT+6 75 Zone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - GMT+7 76 Zone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - GMT+8 77 Zone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - GMT+9 78 Zone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - GMT+10 79 Zone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - GMT+11 80 Zone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - GMT+12