Bug 1474 - Etc/GMT Timezones misplaced
Summary: Etc/GMT Timezones misplaced
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: glibc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libc (show other bugs)
Version: 2.3.5
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: GOTO Masanori
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Reported: 2005-10-14 14:26 UTC by Frederico Freire Boaventura
Modified: 2016-05-17 18:39 UTC (History)
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Description Frederico Freire Boaventura 2005-10-14 14:26:38 UTC
All GMT the timezones on /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc are switched.  Where you get,
for example, GMT+3 you should get GMT-3 and the same goes for all of them.  I
just found this out because of DST starting here, in Brazil, tomorrow and I´ve
some machines that can't go into DST but need the right timezone, in my case GMT-3.

here are some exerpts that I've got using: 
zdump /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT{-,+}{1,2,3,4,5}; date; ls -l /etc/localtime

/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-1  Fri Oct 14 15:20:35 2005 GMT-1
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-2  Fri Oct 14 16:20:35 2005 GMT-2
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-3  Fri Oct 14 17:20:35 2005 GMT-3
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-4  Fri Oct 14 18:20:35 2005 GMT-4
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT-5  Fri Oct 14 19:20:35 2005 GMT-5
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+1  Fri Oct 14 13:20:35 2005 GMT+1
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+2  Fri Oct 14 12:20:35 2005 GMT+2
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+3  Fri Oct 14 11:20:35 2005 GMT+3
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+4  Fri Oct 14 10:20:35 2005 GMT+4
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+5  Fri Oct 14 09:20:35 2005 GMT+5
Fri Oct 14 11:20:36 BRT 2005
/etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo
Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-10-14 14:35:43 UTC
Not a bug.  From timezone/etcetera: 
 
# We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations, 
# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect. 
# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect 
# positive signs east of Greenwich.  For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses 
# the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC 
# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to 
# mean 4 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. east of Greenwich). 
 
Comment 2 soloturn 2007-01-28 06:13:49 UTC
you mean posix is flawless?

 * iso 8601 is the accepted standard
 * most operating systems use it
 * http://rfc.net/rfc3339.html internet use it

so it might be 5 minutes past twelfe to adjust this ... even if it would mean to
adjust posix standard also by moving this out of posix and just referring to iso
8601.

Comment 3 Ulrich Drepper 2007-02-18 04:44:29 UTC
Then bring your problems up to the POSIX working group and not here.