Bug 224442

Summary: tzdata inverts plusses and minuses for gmt relative timezones
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom Wood <woodt>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
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Description Tom Wood 2007-01-25 18:52:01 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tzdata-2006p-1
.fc6

How reproducible: Everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run "system-config-date" and select Time Zone tab.
2. Select GMT-5 to emulate Eastern Standard Time in the US (no DST)
3. Watch as time on system now ahead 10 hours.
  
Actual results:  You get GMT + 5 hours, not GMT - 5 hours.


Expected results:  GMT - 5 hours, which emulates Eastern Standard Time without
the DST changeover.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Petr Machata 2007-02-01 16:13:48 UTC 
Excerpt from tzdata sources:

# 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).

So here we go, POSIX...
Comment 2 Petr Machata 2012-04-02 18:57:08 UTC 
*** Bug 808777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***