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