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

[Julian Cable]

export TZ=UTC has always worked.

With regards to GMT != UTC I think we have the situation globally that
legal time is based on astronomical time but we all set our clocks by
atomic time. So Europe/London is in theory GMT in the winter and GMT+1 =
British Summer Time in the summer but we set our clocks to UTC in the
winter and UTC+1 in the summer and no-one cares about the difference until
we have to implement a leap second.

Julian

On 11/03/2016 09:19, "tz-bounces at iana.org on behalf of Goudge, Stephen"
<tz-bounces at iana.org on behalf of stephen.goudge at petards.com> wrote:

>Clive D.W. Feather said:
>> J William Piggott said:
>> > Try tzselect with the patch applied. I think you will see it is not so
>> > bad. Given the existing choices in top level menu, where would you
>> > look for UTC?
>> >
>> > My answer to that question is based on personal experience. My GPS has
>> > a World Clock application and the zone selector is geographically
>> > based, just like tzselect. I followed the menus straight to London. As
>> > with tzselect, no choice for UTC was offered. I had to settle for
>>Reykjavik.
>>
>> That would be because the London time zone is not the same as UTC,
>>though
>> Reykjavik is.
>
>Regarding personal experience using GPS handhelds and GPS-enabled cameras
>etc: I've long ago accepted that you just shrug and select Reykjavik if
>you want to have UTC. Even if these devices (the small selection I happen
>to use) *did* offer UTC directly, I wouldn't expect to find it listed
>next to London.
>
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