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1# $OpenBSD: factory,v 1.14 2025/01/19 22:03:27 millert Exp $
2# tzdb data for noncommittal factory settings
3
4# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
5# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
6
7# For distributors who don't want to specify a timezone in their
8# installation procedures.  Users who run 'date' will get the
9# time zone abbreviation "-00", indicating that the actual time zone
10# is unknown.
11
12# TZ="Factory" was added to TZDB in 1989, and in 2016 its abbreviation
13# was changed to "-00" from a longish English-language error message.
14# Around 2010, CLDR added "Etc/Unknown" for use with TZDB, to stand
15# for an unknown or invalid time zone.  These two notions differ:
16# TZ="Factory" is a valid timezone, so tzalloc("Factory") succeeds, whereas
17# TZ="Etc/Unknown" is invalid and tzalloc("Etc/Unknown") fails.
18# Also, a downstream distributor could modify Factory to be a
19# default timezone suitable for the devices it manufactures,
20# whereas that cannot happen for Etc/Unknown.
21
22# Zone	NAME	STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT
23Zone	Factory	0	-	-00
24