July 11, 2018
5:21 p.m.
John Wilcock wrote:
The existence of such code is not a sound basis, IMO, for adding a recommendation to refrain from changing the meaning of the current abbreviations (though admittedly it can do no harm to point out that such code does exist).
How about appending a sentence like the following in the next draft? --- If the EU suggests new terminology, it should bear in mind the confusion that would ensue if the EU gave new meanings to existing names; for example, if a new French UTC +02 zone is called “Central European Time (CET)”, many existing applications that assume that CET is UTC +01 will misbehave.