On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

Regardless, though, the actual abbreviations used in tzname, etc., aren't
useful for giving the times of recurring meetings. TZ identifiers (which
include US/Pacific, US/Eastern, etc.) certainly are.

To programmers, the TZ identifiers are what you want to use. To users, that doesn't work well. What one should supply are the customary names and/or abbreviations, so that users understand them.

Mark

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