[tz] Why is `Etc/UCT` not an alias of `Etc/UTC`?

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Mar 5 19:45:50 UTC 2019


On 3/4/19 4:29 PM, Isiah Meadows wrote:
> They seem to refer to the same thing, so it doesn't make much sense to
> me why they're considered different.

They generate different abbreviations:

$ TZ=Etc/UTC date; TZ=Etc/UCT date
Tue Mar  5 19:45:10 UTC 2019
Tue Mar  5 19:45:10 UCT 2019



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