From: Scheffenegger, Richard [mailto:rs@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:06 AM
While the Etc/GMT names might be POSIX style, it is very confusing to a lot of people, when CET is suddenly not GMT+1 but Etc/GMT-1.
Perhaps you can check in those lines to the Etcetera File so that people eventually try UTC with the Correct offset?
Having Etc/UTC+14 mean the opposite of Etc/GMT-14 would probably cause more confusion than it would cure. Even your patch was confused to some extent, since, for example:
Zone Etc/UTC-14 -14 - UTC-14 # 14 hours ahead of UTC
has a comment that is wrong, and the Zone line posits a time zone 14 hours behind UTC, which is something that has no practical use nowadays. I'd be more inclined to move the confusing Etc/... entries to "backwards". (After all, they are backwards from the normal convention. :-)