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| author | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-01-17 01:33:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> | 2025-01-20 00:26:07 +0000 |
| commit | 2d6dcb4f97f89376189f39b700459c72fe7a2678 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fc750e26973d006326d216830dbd5f56c808cf3 /contrib/tzdata/factory | |
| parent | 2611bae42b7d471bcf2c4826bf2ae37c27f983a8 (diff) | |
contrib/tzdata: import tzdata 2025a
Changes: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/2025a/NEWS
(cherry picked from commit 46226b0162ba03986b1de2c790804b37dd8e64d6)
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/tzdata/factory')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/tzdata/factory | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/factory b/contrib/tzdata/factory index d116a115990e..14faf52a792e 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/factory +++ b/contrib/tzdata/factory @@ -8,5 +8,15 @@ # time zone abbreviation "-00", indicating that the actual time zone # is unknown. +# TZ="Factory" was added to TZDB in 1989, and in 2016 its abbreviation +# was changed to "-00" from a longish English-language error message. +# Around 2010, CLDR added "Etc/Unknown" for use with TZDB, to stand +# for an unknown or invalid time zone. These two notions differ: +# TZ="Factory" is a valid timezone, so tzalloc("Factory") succeeds, whereas +# TZ="Etc/Unknown" is invalid and tzalloc("Etc/Unknown") fails. +# Also, a downstream distributor could modify Factory to be a +# default timezone suitable for the devices it manufactures, +# whereas that cannot happen for Etc/Unknown. + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT Zone Factory 0 - "Local time zone must be set--use tzsetup" |