Etc/GMT-14

Time zone identifier: Etc/GMT-14

Current civil offset: +00:00 (UTC)

Current DST state: Observing Standard Time

First standard time adoption: Not recorded

Total recorded transitions: 0 transitions across 0 distinct offsets

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Historical Offset Step Chart (1880 to Present)

-5:00 -4:00 -3:00 -2:00 -1:00 +0:00 +1:00 +2:00 +3:00 +4:00 +5:00 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Text summary: Etc/GMT-14 shifted between 0 distinct offsets from standard time introduction through the modern era.

Complete Transition History (0 Transitions)

No historical transitions recorded for this zone.

Notes from the Maintainers

Source: etcetera (Lines 36 to 58)
End of rearguard section.

Be consistent with POSIX TZ settings in the Zone names,
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, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses
the abbreviation "-04" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UT
(i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to
mean 4 hours ahead of UT (i.e. east of Greenwich).

Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant,
and had lines such as
Zone	GMT-12		-12	-	GMT-1200
We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old
way does a
zic -l GMT-12
so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory.
Also, the time zone abbreviations are now compatible with %z.

There is no "Etc/Unknown" entry, as CLDR says that "Etc/Unknown"
corresponds to an unknown or invalid time zone, and things would get
confusing if Etc/Unknown were made valid here.

Methodology Note: The 1970 Rule

tzdb guarantees accuracy for timestamps from 1970 onwards. Transitions prior to 1970 represent best-effort historical reconstructions.