I think there are other places affected by this also. Where I noticed was in the CLDR, as discussed here:http://stackoverflow.com/a/24395573/634824
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:02:10 -0700 From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: tz@iana.org CC: mj1856@hotmail.com Subject: 'date -u' should say "UTC", not "GMT"
Come to think of it, the tz implementation of 'date -u' should say "UTC" instead of "GMT", and in general the tz code and documentation should prefer UT or UTC to GMT whenever this would improve technical accuracy. Although "GMT" is the traditional time zone abbreviation output of 'date -u', POSIX has allowed "UTC" ever since IEEE Std 1003.1-1992. Outputting "UTC" is more technically correct, certainly for time stamps since 1961, and arguably even before that if one interprets "UTC" proleptically. Also, outputting "UTC" is now a quite-common behavior, since it's the standard behavior in GNU/Linux. So I'll look into proposing a patch to the tz code to have it support this behavior. There are probably a few other places in the code that should also prefer "UT" or "UTC" to "GMT".