I have no intention of inventing a time machine and fixing POSIX.
Please don't use the Etc/* timezones if the inverted offsets confuse
you, there are many other ways to get at the timezones in human-friendly
and less mind-bending ways.
** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium =
Please do not change to WONTFIX.
# 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,
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Please change this to WONTFIX. The confusing entries are part of the
upstream tz database, and they've been there 20 years or so. They are
present only for backward-compatibility reasons for decades-old usage,
which are discussed in the etcetera file of the tzdata distribution.
The confusing
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