<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 March 2016 at 07:26, Derick Rethans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tz@derickrethans.nl" target="_blank">tz@derickrethans.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":99r" class="" style="overflow:hidden">I think it would be nice if there was a top-level entry for that in<br>tzselect, but it should definitely not be linked to London, or<br>Greenwich, GMT, or anything like that.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I agree that this seems to be a bit of an oversight.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 March 2016 at 20:25, Guy Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">guy@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":2pw" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Then it should be fixed to offer:<br><span class="">...<br>
</span>11) UTC - I want to specify the use of Coordinated Universal Time.<br>
12) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.</div></blockquote></div><br>I think this is a reasonable approach.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would point out that, per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Decoding_table">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Decoding_table</a>, country codes AA, Q[M-Z], X[A-Z], and ZZ are permitted for "user assignment". If we were to absolutely feel that Etc/UTC needed a place in <font face="monospace, monospace">zone{,1970}.tab</font>, it would belong there, <b>not</b> in GB. But I don't think that's necessary.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div></div>
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