Etc/UTC

Time zone identifier: Etc/UTC

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

Aliases (Link targets): Etc/UCT, Etc/Universal, Etc/Zulu, UCT, UTC, Universal, Zulu

Historical Offset Step Chart (1880 to Present)

Text summary: Etc/UTC 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 1 to 20)

tzdb data for ships at sea and other miscellany

This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.

These entries are for uses not otherwise covered by the tz database.
Their main practical use is for platforms like Android that lack
support for POSIX proleptic TZ strings.  On such platforms these entries
can be useful if the timezone database is wrong or if a ship or
aircraft at sea is not in a timezone.

Starting with POSIX 1003.1-2001, the entries below are all
unnecessary as settings for the TZ environment variable.  E.g.,
instead of TZ='Etc/GMT+4' one can use the POSIX setting TZ='<-04>+4'.

Do not use a POSIX TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours
behind GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT".

The following zone is used by tzcode functions like gmtime,
which load the "UTC" file to handle seconds properly.

Methodology Note: The 1970 Rule

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