>From ce0baf7a4955c0942ea0c6a182bf94a961237fbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 11:28:30 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] Etc/UCT is now an alias for Etc/UTC (Problem reported by Isiah Meadows.) * NEWS: Document the change. * backward (Etc/UCT): New backward-compatibility link. (UCT): Now links to Etc/UTC, not Etc/UCT. * etcetera (Etc/UCT): Remove. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ backward | 3 ++- etcetera | 1 - 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d6cd8df..d288c6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Israel observed DST in 1980 (08-02/09-13) and 1984 (05-05/08-25). (Thanks to Alois Treindl and Isaac Starkman.) + Changes to time zone abbreviations + + Etc/UCT is now a backward-compatibility link to Etc/UTC, instead + of being a separate zone that generates the abbreviation "UCT", + which nowadays is typically a typo. (Problem reported by Isiah + Meadows.) + Changes to documentation Mention Internet RFC 8536 (February 2019), which documents TZif. diff --git a/backward b/backward index 51e10f4..b4ae3cf 100644 --- a/backward +++ b/backward @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Link Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland Link America/Havana Cuba Link Africa/Cairo Egypt Link Europe/Dublin Eire +Link Etc/UTC Etc/UCT Link Europe/London Europe/Belfast Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Link Europe/London GB @@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ Link Asia/Taipei ROC Link Asia/Seoul ROK Link Asia/Singapore Singapore Link Europe/Istanbul Turkey -Link Etc/UCT UCT +Link Etc/UTC UCT Link America/Anchorage US/Alaska Link America/Adak US/Aleutian Link America/Phoenix US/Arizona diff --git a/etcetera b/etcetera index 91ded93..a1606bd 100644 --- a/etcetera +++ b/etcetera @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ 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', -- 2.20.1