On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:17:25 +0000, Vince Coen wrote:

>The term GMT has been replaced with UTC (from the French and translated
>to Coordinated Universal Time) but it is the same thing.
>
>GMT these days refers to a very few countries ...
>
So except in those very few countries it's incorrect to say "GMT=LOCAL".
It's certainly incorrect in the United States.  And if a site runs its (E)TOD
clock on local time, TIME TZ=GMT will give incorrect results except in those
few countries.

And IBM is entitled to say, "You broke it; we don't have to fix it."

-- gil

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