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

Isiah Meadows contact at isiahmeadows.com
Tue Mar 5 20:00:11 UTC 2019


So basically just back-compat?

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Isiah Meadows
contact at isiahmeadows.com
www.isiahmeadows.com

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:45 PM Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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