[ucarion]

> And another fun fact (We had a lot of fun!): Time Zones often have a "friendly name" in the format Continent/City|Island except for UTC and... GMT+12, which only covers two uninhabited American islands :D

There's quite a few other non-slash-having names out there:

    ls -pL /usr/share/zoneinfo | grep -v '/'

"Eire" is in there, for instance, to deal with software that assumes that the "is_dst" half of the year is during the (northern) summer, but Ireland technically does it the other way around -- a distinction relevant only to computers.

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/c3e966c59b02b1f47f0b7b0e4a...

The only other timezone that currently has a non-1h offset for DST -- Ireland's is -1 hours -- is Australia/Lord_Howe, which has a 30-min positive leap.

Edit: there are also tzdb entries of the form "a/b/c" -- America/Kentucky/Louisville --- though they are not commonly used in practice.

[Rafsark]

> GMT+12, which only covers two uninhabited American islands

New Zealand users are now mad at you :D

[pests]

There is a lot of interesting history in that file.