On 09/20/11 06:34, Tim Parenti wrote:
While I support any effort to create a "unified" abbreviation designation for the new UTC+3 year-round zone to be observed by Belarus and Ukraine (and perhaps even Kaliningrad), I don't think that using "EEST" year-round is necessarily a good idea
I agree. It's not summer time (aka daylight saving time) if it's set permanently to a single UTC offset. We should use the abbreviation of the most common name for this time zone in English. Since there is no such name yet I propose "FET", simply because "F" comes after E, and "FET" is not ambiguous. We can call it an abbreviation for "Further-eastern European Time". This would be a temporary abbreviation; if a common name arises we should switch to an abbreviation for the more-common name.