| # tzdb data for ships at sea and other miscellany |
| |
| # 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 timezone 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. |
| |
| # Starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001, the entries below are all |
| # unnecessary as settings for the TZ environment variable. E.g., |
| # instead of TZ='Etc/GMT+4' one can use the POSIX setting TZ='<-04>+4'. |
| # |
| # Do not use a POSIX TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours |
| # behind GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT". |
| |
| 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 |
| |
| # Be consistent with POSIX TZ settings in the Zone names, |
| # 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 "-04" 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). |
| |
| # 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. |
| # Also, the time zone abbreviations are now compatible with %z. |
| |
| Zone Etc/GMT-14 14 - +14 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - +13 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-12 12 - +12 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-11 11 - +11 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-10 10 - +10 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-9 9 - +09 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-8 8 - +08 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-7 7 - +07 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - +06 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - +05 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - +04 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-3 3 - +03 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-2 2 - +02 |
| Zone Etc/GMT-1 1 - +01 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - -01 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - -02 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - -03 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - -04 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - -05 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - -06 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - -07 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - -08 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - -09 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - -10 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - -11 |
| Zone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - -12 |