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

[Tim Parenti]

On 11 March 2016 at 07:26, Derick Rethans <tz at derickrethans.nl> wrote:

> I think it would be nice if there was a top-level entry for that in
> tzselect, but it should definitely not be linked to London, or
> Greenwich, GMT, or anything like that.
>

I agree that this seems to be a bit of an oversight.

On 12 March 2016 at 20:25, Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Then it should be fixed to offer:
> ...
> 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.
>

I think this is a reasonable approach.

I would point out that, per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Decoding_table, 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 zone{,1970}.tab,
it would belong there, *not* in GB.  But I don't think that's necessary.

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Tim Parenti
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