Bug 466999

Summary: UTC specific zone
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: eric
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description eric 2008-10-15 01:36:16 UTC 
Description of problem: Is it possible to have a "location" for UTC time that doesn't specifically have a location?  Does that even make sense?
Comment 1 Petr Machata 2008-10-15 09:06:55 UTC 
If I understand your question correctly, then yes, and that zone is called "UTC".
$ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC  Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC  Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC  Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC  Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC isdst=0 gmtoff=0

(No DST transitions, offset 0.)

$ date +%T\ %z; TZ=UTC date +%T\ %z
11:03:26 +0200
09:03:26 +0000
Comment 2 eric 2008-10-15 10:57:40 UTC 
Yes.  BUT when I go into my clock preferences (under GNOME) and use the pulldown for Timezone there isn't a UTC zone.  Is it possible to have that added to the list?  Maybe this is the wrong package?
Comment 3 Petr Machata 2008-10-15 11:49:49 UTC 
Dunno what Gnome uses, but in system-config-time, there's a section called "non-geographical time zones".  I can see UTC there.  If you have problems with that, reopen the bug and reassign it to the right package, because the bug is not in tzdata.