From ac029805c0de56ee3970ad59a8c649c974ea4c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:46:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] =?UTF-8?q?*=20etcetera:=20Update=20comment=20in=20the?=
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 etcetera | 11 +++++------
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diff --git a/etcetera b/etcetera
index a1606bd..1dc7411 100644
--- a/etcetera
+++ b/etcetera
@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
-# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
-# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
-# to a timezone that was right for their area.  These days, the
-# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical
-# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea
-# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings.
+# 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-style 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.,
-- 
1.8.3.1