[tz] [PATCH 1/1] Add UTC to zone tables

J William Piggott elseifthen at gmx.com
Wed Mar 9 22:11:52 UTC 2016


* etcetera, zone.tab, zone1970.tab: Create a link to UTC in
  Europe and add it to the zone tables.
---
 etcetera     | 3 +++
 zone.tab     | 3 ++-
 zone1970.tab | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etcetera b/etcetera
index c2e2532..745a5e0 100644
--- a/etcetera
+++ b/etcetera
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Zone	Etc/GMT		0	-	GMT
 Zone	Etc/UTC		0	-	UTC
 Zone	Etc/UCT		0	-	UCT
 
+# To facilitate a zone table entry for UTC.
+Link	Etc/UTC				Europe/UTC
+
 # The following link uses older naming conventions,
 # but it belongs here, not in the file 'backward',
 # as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index f7000f7..bf46077 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ FM	+0519+16259	Pacific/Kosrae	Kosrae
 FO	+6201-00646	Atlantic/Faroe
 FR	+4852+00220	Europe/Paris
 GA	+0023+00927	Africa/Libreville
-GB	+513030-0000731	Europe/London
+GB	+513030-0000731	Europe/London	Britain (most areas)
+GB	+512840-0000005	Europe/UTC	Britain (Greenwich/GMT/UTC)
 GD	+1203-06145	America/Grenada
 GE	+4143+04449	Asia/Tbilisi
 GF	+0456-05220	America/Cayenne
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index 657675f..0c5876e 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ FM	+0658+15813	Pacific/Pohnpei	Pohnpei/Ponape
 FM	+0519+16259	Pacific/Kosrae	Kosrae
 FO	+6201-00646	Atlantic/Faroe
 FR	+4852+00220	Europe/Paris
-GB,GG,IM,JE	+513030-0000731	Europe/London
+GB,GG,IM,JE	+513030-0000731	Europe/London	Britain (most areas)
+GB	+512840-0000005	Europe/UTC	Britain (Greenwich/GMT/UTC)
 GE	+4143+04449	Asia/Tbilisi
 GF	+0456-05220	America/Cayenne
 GH	+0533-00013	Africa/Accra


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