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      1 # tzdb data for noncommittal factory settings
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      3 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
      4 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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      6 # For distributors who don't want to specify a timezone in their
      7 # installation procedures.  Users who run 'date' will get the
      8 # time zone abbreviation "-00", indicating that the actual time zone
      9 # is unknown.
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     11 # TZ="Factory" was added to TZDB in 1989, and in 2016 its abbreviation
     12 # was changed to "-00" from a longish English-language error message.
     13 # Around 2010, CLDR added "Etc/Unknown" for use with TZDB, to stand
     14 # for an unknown or invalid time zone.  These two notions differ:
     15 # TZ="Factory" is a valid timezone, so tzalloc("Factory") succeeds, whereas
     16 # TZ="Etc/Unknown" is invalid and tzalloc("Etc/Unknown") fails.
     17 # Also, a downstream distributor could modify Factory to be a
     18 # default timezone suitable for the devices it manufactures,
     19 # whereas that cannot happen for Etc/Unknown.
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     21 # Zone	NAME	STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT
     22 Zone	Factory	0	-	-00
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