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1# tzdb data for noncommittal factory settings
2
3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
5
6# For distributors who don't want to specify a timezone in their
7# installation procedures.  Users who run 'date' will get the
8# time zone abbreviation "-00", indicating that the actual time zone
9# is unknown.
10
11# TZ="Factory" was added to TZDB in 1989, and in 2016 its abbreviation
12# was changed to "-00" from a longish English-language error message.
13# Around 2010, CLDR added "Etc/Unknown" for use with TZDB, to stand
14# for an unknown or invalid time zone.  These two notions differ:
15# TZ="Factory" is a valid timezone, so tzalloc("Factory") succeeds, whereas
16# TZ="Etc/Unknown" is invalid and tzalloc("Etc/Unknown") fails.
17# Also, a downstream distributor could modify Factory to be a
18# default timezone suitable for the devices it manufactures,
19# whereas that cannot happen for Etc/Unknown.
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21# Zone	NAME	STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT
22Zone	Factory	0	- "Local time zone must be set--use tzsetup"
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