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

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Sun Mar 13 07:33:43 UTC 2016


Guy Harris said:
>> The consensus seems to be, the UTC index card cannot be placed in the
>> zone.tab drawer. It must go in a separate drawer all by itself, because
>> it has no geographic identity.
> Exactly.

Right.

> Then it should be fixed to offer:
> 
> Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", "UTC", or "TZ".
> 1) Africa
> 2) Americas
> 3) Antarctica
> 4) Asia
> 5) Atlantic Ocean
> 6) Australia
> 7) Europe
> 8) Indian Ocean
> 9) Pacific Ocean
> 10) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates.
> 11) UTC - I want to specify the use of Coordinated Universal Time.
> 12) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.

Agreed.

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