June 7, 2021
8:08 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 02:28:01AM -0700, Guy Harris via tz wrote:
Hopefully nobody using any APIs that return time zone abbreviations is assuming that those abbreviations can, in the general case, be used to determine what time zone you're in - i.e., display them to the user, but don't attempt to process them to infer any information unless you know that they come from a limited set of tzdb regions in which no two regions ever have the same abbreviations.
PHP used to do this in the past: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628079#19