From ac029805c0de56ee3970ad59a8c649c974ea4c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:46:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] =?UTF-8?q?*=20etcetera:=20Update=20comment=20in=20the?= =?UTF-8?q?=20light=20of=20Neil=20Fuller=E2=80=99s=20comments.?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- etcetera | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/etcetera b/etcetera index a1606bd..1dc7411 100644 --- a/etcetera +++ b/etcetera @@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. -# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that -# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" -# to a timezone that was right for their area. These days, the -# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical -# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea -# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. +# These entries are for uses not otherwise covered by the tz database. +# Their main practical use is for platforms like Android that lack +# support for POSIX-style TZ strings. On such platforms these entries +# can be useful if the timezone database is wrong or if a ship or +# aircraft at sea is not in a timezone. # Starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001, the entries below are all # unnecessary as settings for the TZ environment variable. E.g., -- 1.8.3.1