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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2001-03-16 01:10:29 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2001-03-16 01:10:29 +0000
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Update.
	* timezone/antarctica: Update from tzdata2001a.
	* timezone/asia: Likewise.
	* timezone/australasia: Likewise.
	* timezone/backward: Likewise.
	* timezone/etcetera: Likewise.
	* timezone/europe: Likewise.
	* timezone/leapseconds: Likewise.
	* timezone/northamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/southamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/systemv: Likewise.
	* timezone/yearistype: Likewise.
	* timezone/zone.tab: Likewise.
	* timezone/tzdump.c: Update from tzcode2001a.

2001-03-15  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* intl/Makefile: Fix a typo.

2001-03-14  David Mosberger  <davidm@hpl.hp.com>

	* gmon/gmon.c (write_call_graph): Avoid unaligned accesses when
	writing arc structures.

2001-03-15  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

	* elf/Makefile ($(objpfx)tst-pathopt.out): Protected against
	cross-compiling.

2001-03-13  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

	* posix/PTESTS2C.sed: Replace literal CRs by `\r'.

2001-03-15  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@redhat.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/cmsg_nxthdr.c (__cmsg_nxthdr): Fix test
	for control message fitting into message data.
	Patch by James Antill <james@and.org>.
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diff --git a/timezone/etcetera b/timezone/etcetera
index 4fb27acff3..f87a76ea48 100644
--- a/timezone/etcetera
+++ b/timezone/etcetera
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)etcetera	7.10
+# @(#)etcetera	7.11
 
 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
 # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
@@ -24,10 +24,24 @@ Link	Etc/GMT				Etc/GMT-0
 Link	Etc/GMT				Etc/GMT+0
 Link	Etc/GMT				Etc/GMT0
 
-# We use POSIX-style signedness in the names and output,
-# internal-style signedness in the specifications.
-# For example, TZ=Etc/GMT+4 corresponds to 4 hours _behind_ UTC;
-# it is equivalent to TZ=GMT+4, which is implemented directly as per POSIX.
+# We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations,
+# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect.
+# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect
+# positive signs east of Greenwich.  For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses
+# the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC
+# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to
+# mean 4 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. east of Greenwich).
+#
+# In the draft 5 of POSIX 1003.1-200x, the angle bracket notation
+# (which is not yet supported by the tz code) allows for
+# TZ='<GMT-4>+4'; if you want time zone abbreviations conforming to
+# ISO 8601 you can use TZ='<-0400>+4'.  Thus the commonly-expected
+# offset is kept within the angle bracket (and is used for display)
+# while the POSIX sign is kept outside the angle bracket (and is used
+# for calculation).
+#
+# Do not use a TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours behind
+# GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT".
 
 # Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant,
 # and had lines such as