On 03/10/2016 02:04 PM, J William Piggott wrote:
Should there be a zone table (tzselect) entry for UTC?
One can use tzselect to choose UTC already, no? Something like the following. $ tzselect Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", or "TZ". 1) Africa 2) Americas 3) Antarctica 4) Asia 5) Atlantic Ocean 6) Australia 7) Europe 8) Indian Ocean 9) Pacific Ocean 10) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates. 11) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format. #? 11 Please enter the desired value of the TZ environment variable. For example, GST-10 is a zone named GST that is 10 hours ahead (east) of UTC. UTC0 The following information has been given: TZ='UTC0' Therefore TZ='UTC0' will be used. Selected time is now: Thu Mar 10 23:19:59 UTC 2016. Universal Time is now: Thu Mar 10 23:19:59 UTC 2016. Is the above information OK? 1) Yes 2) No #? 1 You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line TZ='UTC0'; export TZ to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again. Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you can use the ./tzselect command in shell scripts: UTC0