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# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
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# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
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# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
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# to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the
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# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical
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# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea
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# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings.
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# The following link uses older naming conventions,
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# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward',
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# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
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# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names.
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Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal
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Link Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich
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Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0
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Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0
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# We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations,
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# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect.
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# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect
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# positive signs east of Greenwich. For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses
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# the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC
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# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to
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# mean 4 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. east of Greenwich).
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# In the draft 5 of POSIX 1003.1-200x, the angle bracket notation allows for
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# TZ='<GMT-4>+4'; if you want time zone abbreviations conforming to
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# ISO 8601 you can use TZ='<-0400>+4'. Thus the commonly-expected
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# offset is kept within the angle bracket (and is used for display)
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# while the POSIX sign is kept outside the angle bracket (and is used
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# Do not use a TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours behind
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# GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT".
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# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant,
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# and had lines such as
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# Zone GMT-12 -12 - GMT-1200
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# We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old
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# so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory.
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Zone Etc/GMT-14 14 - GMT-14 # 14 hours ahead of GMT
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Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - GMT-13
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Zone Etc/GMT-12 12 - GMT-12
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Zone Etc/GMT-11 11 - GMT-11
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Zone Etc/GMT-10 10 - GMT-10
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Zone Etc/GMT-9 9 - GMT-9
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Zone Etc/GMT-8 8 - GMT-8
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Zone Etc/GMT-7 7 - GMT-7
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Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - GMT-6
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Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - GMT-5
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Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - GMT-4
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Zone Etc/GMT-3 3 - GMT-3
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Zone Etc/GMT-2 2 - GMT-2
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Zone Etc/GMT-1 1 - GMT-1
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Zone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - GMT+1
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Zone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - GMT+2
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Zone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - GMT+3
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Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4
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Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - GMT+5
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Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - GMT+6
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Zone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - GMT+7
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Zone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - GMT+8
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Zone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - GMT+9
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Zone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - GMT+10
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Zone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - GMT+11
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Zone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - GMT+12