Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 08:50:02 +0200 From: Steffen Thorsen <thorsen@timeanddate.com> Message-ID: <55C4551A.1030907@timeanddate.com> | This probably needs a new time zone abbreviation, Why? It appears as if we have used KST for both north & south Korea (aside from ROK's occasional uses of summer time) more or less forever (the period when Japan was in control excepted), whether the offset has been +0830 or +0900, and including (in both countries) during (winter during) the previous period that their timezone offsets disagreed (1954-1961). And what's more, we did earlier, when the data was different, but with a similar variation. Why change now? [Aside: if an abbreviation change was warranted, picking a %z style would seem to be a very poor choice to me ... and while it is clear that actually using the new '%z' would be inappropriate yet, it is no more clear to me that older zic's, and other uses, will all support +0830 as the abbreviation.] kre