On 3/04/13 04:08 , Russ Allbery wrote:
Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com> writes:
That works for single points in time. It does not, however, handle repeating meetings. For example: Mondays at 8:00 PT If you're writing calendaring software, generally you switch to using something like the tz identifiers, which give you America/Los_Angeles and well-defined behavior. But there is too many crappy software out there which does not support this.
Humans don't need the abbreviation and don't care.
Yes they do, it is much easier because there are less and they can be pictured in the mind. If I say Europe/Madrid and Europe/Lisbon, most people will not realize that they are not in the same timezone. If I say CEST and AZOST, that will ring a bell saying "Hey guys, there is a time difference here". Edwin