1192886Sedwin# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2192886Sedwin# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 32744Swollman 420091Swollman# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that 520091Swollman# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" 620091Swollman# to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the 7149511Swollman# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical 8149511Swollman# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea 9149511Swollman# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. 102744Swollman 11309568Sglebius# Starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001, the entries below are all 12309568Sglebius# unnecessary as settings for the TZ environment variable. E.g., 13309568Sglebius# instead of TZ='Etc/GMT+4' one can use the POSIX setting TZ='<-04>+4'. 14309568Sglebius# 15309568Sglebius# Do not use a POSIX TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours 16309568Sglebius# behind GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT". 17309568Sglebius 182744SwollmanZone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT 1920091SwollmanZone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC 2020091SwollmanZone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT 2120091Swollman 2243009Swollman# The following link uses older naming conventions, 23273438Sdelphij# but it belongs here, not in the file 'backward', 24199405Sobrien# as functions like gmtime load the "UTC" file to handle leap seconds properly. 2543009Swollman# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names. 26199405SobrienLink Etc/UTC UTC 2743009Swollman 2820091SwollmanLink Etc/UTC Etc/Universal 2920091SwollmanLink Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu 3020091Swollman 312744SwollmanLink Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich 322744SwollmanLink Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0 332744SwollmanLink Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0 342744SwollmanLink Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 352744Swollman 36309568Sglebius# Be consistent with POSIX TZ settings in the Zone names, 3775264Swollman# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect. 3875264Swollman# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect 3975264Swollman# positive signs east of Greenwich. For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses 40309568Sglebius# the abbreviation "-04" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UT 4175264Swollman# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to 42257682Sedwin# mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich). 432744Swollman 442744Swollman# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant, 452744Swollman# and had lines such as 462744Swollman# Zone GMT-12 -12 - GMT-1200 472744Swollman# We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old 482744Swollman# way does a 492744Swollman# zic -l GMT-12 502744Swollman# so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory. 51309568Sglebius# Also, the time zone abbreviations are now compatible with %z. 522744Swollman 53309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-14 14 - +14 54309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-13 13 - +13 55309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-12 12 - +12 56309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-11 11 - +11 57309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-10 10 - +10 58309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-9 9 - +09 59309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-8 8 - +08 60309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-7 7 - +07 61309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-6 6 - +06 62309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-5 5 - +05 63309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-4 4 - +04 64309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-3 3 - +03 65309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-2 2 - +02 66309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT-1 1 - +01 67309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - -01 68309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - -02 69309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - -03 70309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - -04 71309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - -05 72309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - -06 73309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - -07 74309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - -08 75309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - -09 76309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - -10 77309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - -11 78309568SglebiusZone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - -12 79