[tz] Introduce Etc/UTC+x timezones?

Bavin Notn notnbavin at gmail.com
Tue May 2 14:31:54 UTC 2023


On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 07:31, Bavin Notn <notnbavin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 07:30, Benjamin Drung via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2023-04-24 at 19:59 -0400, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>> --
>> Benjamin Drung
>> Debian & Ubuntu Developer
>>
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