June 24, 2014
1:55 p.m.
On 06/24/2014 01:25 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a concrete reason for why Etc/GMT, Etc/UTC and Etc/UCT are three separate zones?
They use different time zone abbreviations, and so cannot be links. For example: $ TZ=Etc/GMT date; TZ=Etc/UCT date; TZ=Etc/UTC date; date -u Tue Jun 24 20:31:12 GMT 2014 Tue Jun 24 20:31:12 UCT 2014 Tue Jun 24 20:31:12 UTC 2014 Tue Jun 24 20:31:12 GMT 2014 The last line of output depends on your 'date' implementation; GNU 'date', for example, says "UTC", but tz 'date' says "GMT".