Bug 24385

Summary: GMT+N and GMT-N timezones are wrong defined
Product: Base System Reporter: semenu <semenu>
Component: confAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.2-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description semenu freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-01-16 14:50:01 UTC 
	The correct way to define an entry is to give an offset
	from GMT as a third parameter, not back offset. Even 
	comment say this in src/share/zoneinfo/etcetera:

# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant,
# and had lines such as
#               Zone    GMT-12          -12     -       GMT-1200

How-To-Repeat: 
	Try to use any of GMT+N or GMT-N timezones, and see your
	time shifts right in another way of what you supposed.
Comment 1 Garrett A. Wollman 2001-01-16 16:10:47 UTC 
<<On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:51:29 +0600 (GMT+6), semenu@FreeBSD.ORG said:

> 	Try to use any of GMT+N or GMT-N timezones, and see your
> 	time shifts right in another way of what you supposed.

These zones are included for compatibility with ancient UNIX systems.
You are more likely to convince the TZ database developers to drop
them altogether than you are to get them to change the definitions.
In any case, FreeBSD will follow the practice of the TZ database.

-GAWollman
Comment 2 Garrett Wollman freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-01-16 16:21:57 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

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