Hi, On 2023-05-17 17:09, Atila KOÇ wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > > A new msgid is added to tzdata po template (attached): > > #. Type: select > #. Description > #: ../tzdata.templates:13001 > msgid "" > "Please select your time zone. Contrary to modern conventions, these POSIX-" > "compatible zones use positive values to refer to zones west of Greenwich and" > "negative values for those east of Greenwich (e.g., 'Etc/GMT+6' refers to 6" > "hours west of Greenwich, commonly called 'UTC-6')." > > GMT+6 should be east of Greenwich and equal to UTC+6, I think.
Yes, in usual convention you are correct. However the point of the message is to say that in the POSIX Convention is reversed Etc/GMT+6 corresponds to UTC-6. Therefore the message in the template is correct. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://aurel32.net
