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1# tzdb data for ships at sea and other miscellany
2
3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
5
6# These entries are for uses not otherwise covered by the tz database.
7# Their main practical use is for platforms like Android that lack
8# support for POSIX proleptic TZ strings.  On such platforms these entries
9# can be useful if the timezone database is wrong or if a ship or
10# aircraft at sea is not in a timezone.
11
12# Starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001, the entries below are all
13# unnecessary as settings for the TZ environment variable.  E.g.,
14# instead of TZ='Etc/GMT+4' one can use the POSIX setting TZ='<-04>+4'.
15#
16# Do not use a POSIX TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours
17# behind GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT".
18
19# The following zone is used by tzcode functions like gmtime,
20# which load the "UTC" file to handle seconds properly.
21Zone	Etc/UTC		0	-	UTC
22
23# Functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
24# Vanguard section, which works with most .zi parsers.
25#Zone	GMT		0	-	GMT
26# Rearguard section, for TZUpdater 2.3.2 and earlier.
27Zone	Etc/GMT		0	-	GMT
28
29# The following link uses older naming conventions,
30# but it belongs here, not in the file 'backward',
31# as it is needed for tzcode releases through 2022a,
32# where functions like gmtime load "GMT" instead of the "Etc/UTC".
33# We want this to work even on installations that omit 'backward'.
34Link	Etc/GMT				GMT
35# End of rearguard section.
36
37# Be consistent with POSIX TZ settings in the Zone names,
38# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect.
39# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect
40# positive signs east of Greenwich.  For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses
41# the abbreviation "-04" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UT
42# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to
43# mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich).
44
45# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant,
46# and had lines such as
47#		Zone	GMT-12		-12	-	GMT-1200
48# We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old
49# way does a
50#		zic -l GMT-12
51# so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory.
52# Also, the time zone abbreviations are now compatible with %z.
53
54Zone	Etc/GMT-14	14	-	%z
55Zone	Etc/GMT-13	13	-	%z
56Zone	Etc/GMT-12	12	-	%z
57Zone	Etc/GMT-11	11	-	%z
58Zone	Etc/GMT-10	10	-	%z
59Zone	Etc/GMT-9	9	-	%z
60Zone	Etc/GMT-8	8	-	%z
61Zone	Etc/GMT-7	7	-	%z
62Zone	Etc/GMT-6	6	-	%z
63Zone	Etc/GMT-5	5	-	%z
64Zone	Etc/GMT-4	4	-	%z
65Zone	Etc/GMT-3	3	-	%z
66Zone	Etc/GMT-2	2	-	%z
67Zone	Etc/GMT-1	1	-	%z
68Zone	Etc/GMT+1	-1	-	%z
69Zone	Etc/GMT+2	-2	-	%z
70Zone	Etc/GMT+3	-3	-	%z
71Zone	Etc/GMT+4	-4	-	%z
72Zone	Etc/GMT+5	-5	-	%z
73Zone	Etc/GMT+6	-6	-	%z
74Zone	Etc/GMT+7	-7	-	%z
75Zone	Etc/GMT+8	-8	-	%z
76Zone	Etc/GMT+9	-9	-	%z
77Zone	Etc/GMT+10	-10	-	%z
78Zone	Etc/GMT+11	-11	-	%z
79Zone	Etc/GMT+12	-12	-	%z
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