Confusion with Etc/GMT-8 time zone

Hello, This on a debian wheezy/testing system: Currently, my time zone is set to 'America/Los_Angeles': $ cat /etc/timezone America/Los_Angeles $ date Mon Jan 28 11:12:01 PST 2013 Changing it to 'Etc/GMT-8', which should be equivalent to Los Angeles's time zone results in: $ echo

Re: Confusion with Etc/GMT-8 time zone

Amit wrote: Currently, my time zone is set to 'America/Los_Angeles': $ cat /etc/timezone America/Los_Angeles $ date Mon Jan 28 11:12:01 PST 2013 It is easier to work with these by using the TZ variable while developing and debugging. It avoids the need to change anything permanently