On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:09 AM, David Patte <dpatte@relativedata.com> wrote:
Good idea, but no one has the right to impose a system like this on any country. They would not be more imposed than the current abbreviations are. E.g. FET, see the thread at http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-September/008846.html
or likely EAST (Chile), GALT (Ecuador), CT (Cuba) in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Time zones and their names are decided at national, regional, and even local government levels, in some cases.
And abbreviations in some cases by Paul Eggert (proposer) and Arthur David Olson (decider) http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-September/008838.html ""FET" used as abbreviation for Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia (thanks to Paul Eggert)" And the first thread above shows several opposing users, Yury, Clive, Tobias.
The tz database simply tries to capture current tz usage - not apply or impose a standard. At least there is rule in the Theory file to use ISO 3166-1 under certain conditions.
The idea that I did present is maybe a little bit extreme if applied for all countries, but maybe abbreviations that have no local usage could be revised inspired by the idea. Or some people that fork can make use of the idea. -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/