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-rw-r--r--timezone/backward3
-rw-r--r--timezone/etcetera8
-rw-r--r--timezone/europe9
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/timezone/backward b/timezone/backward
index 4c7a19d2cf..84f3de51b1 100644
--- a/timezone/backward
+++ b/timezone/backward
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)backward	7.14
+# @(#)backward	7.15
 
 # This file provides links between current names for time zones
 # and their old names.  Many names changed in late 1993.
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ Link	America/Havana		Cuba
 Link	Africa/Cairo		Egypt
 Link	Europe/Dublin		Eire
 Link	Europe/London		GB
-Link	Etc/GMT			GMT
 Link	Etc/GMT+0		GMT+0
 Link	Etc/GMT-0		GMT-0
 Link	Etc/GMT0		GMT0
diff --git a/timezone/etcetera b/timezone/etcetera
index cf1516fe2f..4fb27acff3 100644
--- a/timezone/etcetera
+++ b/timezone/etcetera
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)etcetera	7.9
+# @(#)etcetera	7.10
 
 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
 # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ Zone	Etc/GMT		0	-	GMT
 Zone	Etc/UTC		0	-	UTC
 Zone	Etc/UCT		0	-	UCT
 
+# The following link uses older naming conventions,
+# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward',
+# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
+# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names.
+Link	Etc/GMT				GMT
+
 Link	Etc/UTC				Etc/Universal
 Link	Etc/UTC				Etc/Zulu
 
diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe
index 5e920e8366..671cd54a22 100644
--- a/timezone/europe
+++ b/timezone/europe
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)europe	7.54
+# @(#)europe	7.55
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -1610,11 +1610,16 @@ Zone	Europe/Vilnius	1:41:16	-	LMT	1880
 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug
 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
-			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT
+			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1998 Mar 29 2:00s
+			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
 # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is
 # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too.
 
+# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07):
+# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
+# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
+
 # Luxembourg
 # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S