Semen A. Ustimenko is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Semen A. Ustimenko [mailto:semenu@online.sinor.ru] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:30 PM To: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: etcetera patch Hi! I've discovered that definition for GMT+N anf GMT-N are just wrong. I.e. setting zone to GMT+6 you really get -6 hours offset from GMT. And this is quite correct as is defined in etcetera file! So, suppose follwoing patch worth commiting. Index: src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/home/ncvs/src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.4 diff -c -r1.1.2.4 etcetera *** src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera 1999/01/21 21:35:07 1.1.2.4 --- src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera 2000/12/04 15:14:56 *************** *** 37,65 **** # zic -l GMT-12 # so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory. ! Zone Etc/GMT-14 14 - GMT-14 # 14 hours ahead of GMT ! Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - GMT-13 ! Zone Etc/GMT-12 12 - GMT-12 ! Zone Etc/GMT-11 11 - GMT-11 ! Zone Etc/GMT-10 10 - GMT-10 ! Zone Etc/GMT-9 9 - GMT-9 ! Zone Etc/GMT-8 8 - GMT-8 ! Zone Etc/GMT-7 7 - GMT-7 ! Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - GMT-6 ! Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - GMT-5 ! Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - GMT-4 ! Zone Etc/GMT-3 3 - GMT-3 ! Zone Etc/GMT-2 2 - GMT-2 ! Zone Etc/GMT-1 1 - GMT-1 ! Zone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - GMT+1 ! Zone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - GMT+2 ! Zone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - GMT+3 ! Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4 ! Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - GMT+5 ! Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - GMT+6 ! Zone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - GMT+7 ! Zone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - GMT+8 ! Zone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - GMT+9 ! Zone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - GMT+10 ! Zone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - GMT+11 ! Zone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - GMT+12 --- 37,65 ---- # zic -l GMT-12 # so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory. ! Zone Etc/GMT-14 -14 - GMT-14 # 14 hours ahead of GMT ! Zone Etc/GMT-13 -13 - GMT-13 ! Zone Etc/GMT-12 -12 - GMT-12 ! Zone Etc/GMT-11 -11 - GMT-11 ! Zone Etc/GMT-10 -10 - GMT-10 ! Zone Etc/GMT-9 -9 - GMT-9 ! Zone Etc/GMT-8 -8 - GMT-8 ! Zone Etc/GMT-7 -7 - GMT-7 ! Zone Etc/GMT-6 -6 - GMT-6 ! Zone Etc/GMT-5 -5 - GMT-5 ! Zone Etc/GMT-4 -4 - GMT-4 ! Zone Etc/GMT-3 -3 - GMT-3 ! Zone Etc/GMT-2 -2 - GMT-2 ! Zone Etc/GMT-1 -1 - GMT-1 ! Zone Etc/GMT+1 1 - GMT+1 ! Zone Etc/GMT+2 2 - GMT+2 ! Zone Etc/GMT+3 3 - GMT+3 ! Zone Etc/GMT+4 4 - GMT+4 ! Zone Etc/GMT+5 5 - GMT+5 ! Zone Etc/GMT+6 6 - GMT+6 ! Zone Etc/GMT+7 7 - GMT+7 ! Zone Etc/GMT+8 8 - GMT+8 ! Zone Etc/GMT+9 9 - GMT+9 ! Zone Etc/GMT+10 10 - GMT+10 ! Zone Etc/GMT+11 11 - GMT+11 ! Zone Etc/GMT+12 12 - GMT+12