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Copyright (c) 1999, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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The /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/src directory contains zoneinfo timezone source
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files.  These source files have been compiled using zic(1M) to create
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the zoneinfo data files in /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo.  The zic command can be
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used with the zoneinfo source files to create additional data files.
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The zoneinfo files track the Olson public source provided at
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ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/, therefore zoneinfo files may be added and
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removed as the Solaris source is updated.  The current Solaris release of
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the zoneinfo files is based on tzdata2015e.tar.gz.
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The /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/GMT[+-]* timezones listed below have been
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removed from the release.  Replace usage of the
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/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/GMT[+-]* files with the equivalent quoted timezone
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(see environ(5)).  Note the signs of the offsets of the equivalent quoted
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timezone are reversed from the signs of the /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/GMT[+-]*
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files.
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For example, replace TZ=:GMT+1, with TZ="<GMT-1>-1".  (The colon (:) is
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significant.  Without the colon, for example TZ=GMT+1, an unquoted timezone
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is used;  unquoted timezones are not affected by the removal of the zoneinfo
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timezone files listed below.)
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The following files have been removed from the release:
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/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/GMT-8
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As zoneinfo timezones are updated, the savings/daylight transition rules
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and timezone name abbreviations may change.  This can affect how 
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the times are calculated in the local timezone.  Therefore the interpretation
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of a time_t value can vary amongst Solaris releases that use different
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versions of the zoneinfo timezones.
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For more information see zic(1M), zdump(1M), environ(5), TIMEZONE(4),
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ctime(3C), and mktime(3C) man pages.