1 # <pre>
   2 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
   3 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
   4 
   5 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
   6 # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
   7 # to a time zone that was right for their area.  These days, the
   8 # tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical
   9 # need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea
  10 # that cannot use POSIX TZ settings.
  11 
  12 Zone    Etc/GMT         0       -       GMT
  13 Zone    Etc/UTC         0       -       UTC
  14 Zone    Etc/UCT         0       -       UCT
  15 
  16 # The following link uses older naming conventions,
  17 # but it belongs here, not in the file `backward',
  18 # as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
  19 # We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names.
  20 Link    Etc/GMT                         GMT
  21 
  22 Link    Etc/UTC                         Etc/Universal
  23 Link    Etc/UTC                         Etc/Zulu
  24 
  25 Link    Etc/GMT                         Etc/Greenwich
  26 Link    Etc/GMT                         Etc/GMT-0
  27 Link    Etc/GMT                         Etc/GMT+0
  28 Link    Etc/GMT                         Etc/GMT0
  29 
  30 # We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations,
  31 # even though this is the opposite of what many people expect.
  32 # POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect
  33 # positive signs east of Greenwich.  For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses
  34 # the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UT
  35 # (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to
  36 # mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich).
  37 #

   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 #