FW: etcetera patch

Olson, Arthur David (NCI) olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Tue Jan 16 21:42:40 UTC 2001


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-----Original Message-----
From: Semen A. Ustimenko [mailto:semenu at online.sinor.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:30 PM
To: tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
Subject: etcetera patch


Hi!

I've discovered that definition for GMT+N anf GMT-N are just wrong. I.e.
setting zone to
GMT+6 you really get -6 hours offset from GMT. And this is quite correct as
is defined in
etcetera file!

So, suppose follwoing patch worth commiting.

Index: src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/home/ncvs/src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera,v
retrieving revision 1.1.2.4
diff -c -r1.1.2.4 etcetera
*** src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera	1999/01/21 21:35:07	1.1.2.4
--- src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera 2000/12/04 15:14:56
***************
*** 37,65 ****
  #		zic -l GMT-12
  # so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory.

! Zone	Etc/GMT-14	14	-	GMT-14	# 14 hours ahead of GMT
! Zone	Etc/GMT-13	13	-	GMT-13
! Zone	Etc/GMT-12	12	-	GMT-12
! Zone	Etc/GMT-11	11	-	GMT-11
! Zone	Etc/GMT-10	10	-	GMT-10
! Zone	Etc/GMT-9	9	-	GMT-9
! Zone	Etc/GMT-8	8	-	GMT-8
! Zone	Etc/GMT-7	7	-	GMT-7
! Zone	Etc/GMT-6	6	-	GMT-6
! Zone	Etc/GMT-5	5	-	GMT-5
! Zone	Etc/GMT-4	4	-	GMT-4
! Zone	Etc/GMT-3	3	-	GMT-3
! Zone	Etc/GMT-2	2	-	GMT-2
! Zone	Etc/GMT-1	1	-	GMT-1
! Zone	Etc/GMT+1	-1	-	GMT+1
! Zone	Etc/GMT+2	-2	-	GMT+2
! Zone	Etc/GMT+3	-3	-	GMT+3
! Zone	Etc/GMT+4	-4	-	GMT+4
! Zone	Etc/GMT+5	-5	-	GMT+5
! Zone	Etc/GMT+6	-6	-	GMT+6
! Zone	Etc/GMT+7	-7	-	GMT+7
! Zone	Etc/GMT+8	-8	-	GMT+8
! Zone	Etc/GMT+9	-9	-	GMT+9
! Zone	Etc/GMT+10	-10	-	GMT+10
! Zone	Etc/GMT+11	-11	-	GMT+11
! Zone	Etc/GMT+12	-12	-	GMT+12
--- 37,65 ----
  #		zic -l GMT-12
  # so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory.

! Zone	Etc/GMT-14	-14	-	GMT-14	# 14 hours ahead of GMT
! Zone	Etc/GMT-13	-13	-	GMT-13
! Zone	Etc/GMT-12	-12	-	GMT-12
! Zone	Etc/GMT-11	-11	-	GMT-11
! Zone	Etc/GMT-10	-10	-	GMT-10
! Zone	Etc/GMT-9	-9	-	GMT-9
! Zone	Etc/GMT-8	-8	-	GMT-8
! Zone	Etc/GMT-7	-7	-	GMT-7
! Zone	Etc/GMT-6	-6	-	GMT-6
! Zone	Etc/GMT-5	-5	-	GMT-5
! Zone	Etc/GMT-4	-4	-	GMT-4
! Zone	Etc/GMT-3	-3	-	GMT-3
! Zone	Etc/GMT-2	-2	-	GMT-2
! Zone	Etc/GMT-1	-1	-	GMT-1
! Zone	Etc/GMT+1	1	-	GMT+1
! Zone	Etc/GMT+2	2	-	GMT+2
! Zone	Etc/GMT+3	3	-	GMT+3
! Zone	Etc/GMT+4	4	-	GMT+4
! Zone	Etc/GMT+5	5	-	GMT+5
! Zone	Etc/GMT+6	6	-	GMT+6
! Zone	Etc/GMT+7	7	-	GMT+7
! Zone	Etc/GMT+8	8	-	GMT+8
! Zone	Etc/GMT+9	9	-	GMT+9
! Zone	Etc/GMT+10	10	-	GMT+10
! Zone	Etc/GMT+11	11	-	GMT+11
! Zone	Etc/GMT+12	12	-	GMT+12




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