[tz] Introduce Etc/UTC+x timezones?

Bavin Notn notnbavin at gmail.com
Tue May 2 14:31:49 UTC 2023


On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 07:30, Benjamin Drung via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-04-24 at 19:59 -0400, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 at 16:23, Doug Ewell via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
> > > The question is whether a new set of 26 identifiers should be
> > > created in the tz database which look like aliases for the existing
> > > “Etc/GMT±n” identifiers, but which in fact have the opposite
> > > meaning.
> > >
> > > I have to agree with Paul Eggert that this would add nothing but
> > > confusion.
> > >
> >
> >
> > FWIW, I'd pondered making a similar proposal a few years back, and
> > similarly concluded that it's not worth the added confusion for many
> > of the reasons already stated.
> >
> > At least not unless/until the backward-compatibility concerns leading
> > to the existing Etc/GMT* zones will have (someday) outstayed their
> > welcome, and even then we'd want to wait a good while before adding
> > anything similar.
>
> Thanks for all the feedback - especially the history lesson about GMT
> vs. UTC. As result I will just clarify the difference between GMT and
> UTC offsets in the Debian/Ubuntu package.
>
> --
> Benjamin Drung
> Debian & Ubuntu Developer
>
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