From: Yoshito Umaoka <y.umaoka@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:52:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ICU-8780 Added a note to getGMT() explaining that the ID used by the result zone... 
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X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28a3ac4e9f22c4082b6b4cbf5ada422cd26ac600;p=icu

ICU-8780 Added a note to getGMT() explaining that the ID used by the result zone is 'GMT', not 'Etc/GMT'.

X-SVN-Rev: 30622
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diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/timezone.h b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/timezone.h
index 059e55ac0cb..a37014d17be 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/timezone.h
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/timezone.h
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ public:
     /**
      * The GMT time zone has a raw offset of zero and does not use daylight
      * savings time. This is a commonly used time zone.
+     *
+     * <p>Note: For backward compatibility reason, the ID used by the time
+     * zone returned by this method is "GMT", although the ICU's canonical
+     * ID for the GMT time zone is "Etc/GMT".
+     *
      * @return the GMT time zone.
      * @stable ICU 2.0
      */