1# @(#)etcetera 7.6
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2 3# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that 4# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" 5# to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the 6# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little 7# need now for the entries that are not on UTC. 8 9Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT 10Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC 11Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT 12
| 2 3# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that 4# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" 5# to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the 6# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little 7# need now for the entries that are not on UTC. 8 9Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT 10Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC 11Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT 12
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| 13# The following link uses older naming conventions, 14# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward', 15# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly. 16# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. 17Link Etc/GMT GMT 18
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13Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal 14Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu 15 16Link Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich 17Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0 18Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0 19Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 20 21# We use POSIX-style signedness in the names and output, 22# internal-style signedness in the specifications.
| 19Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal 20Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu 21 22Link Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich 23Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0 24Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0 25Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 26 27# We use POSIX-style signedness in the names and output, 28# internal-style signedness in the specifications.
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23# For example, TZ=Etc/GMT+4 corresponds to 4 hours _behind_ GMT;
| 29# For example, TZ=Etc/GMT+4 corresponds to 4 hours _behind_ UTC;
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24# it is equivalent to TZ=GMT+4, which is implemented directly as per POSIX. 25 26# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant, 27# and had lines such as 28# Zone GMT-12 -12 - GMT-1200 29# We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old 30# way does a 31# zic -l GMT-12
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